When considering Baroque concertos for multiple instruments -- particularly violins -- Vivaldi is certainly the name that comes most quickly to mind. This album proves, however, that many composers were writing for this medium and doing a magnificent job of it. Despite conductor Reinhard Goebel's stated trepidation about the success of concertos ...
Even at a time when technically daunting violin concertos were all the rage, the six concertos assembled on this disc were remarkable for their difficulty; indeed, they were the most difficult concertos Vivaldi ever wrote. The B flat major Concerto that concludes the set at hand, for instance, may be the single most virtuosic work in the violin ...
This plunge into the steady stream of Biber releases comes from violinist Anton Steck, an alumnus of the Musica Antiqua Köln period-instrument group. Austria's Heinrich Ignaz von Biber was a brilliant, iconoclastic violinist and composer of the late seventeenth century, hardly known 25 years ago but now the recipient of attention from violinists ...
German Baroque violinist Anton Steck, a protégé of Reinhard Goebel, has the right look for Geminiani: stylish, rather foppish rather mysterious, with long hair. Geminiani was a true virtuoso, a student of Corelli who, along with numerous other Italian musicians, moved to prosperous London in the early decades of the eighteenth century. He ...
Apart from the inconvenient size of the packaging, this set of the Mozart Sonatas for Piano & Violin (so nice to see it listed correctly like this, instead of as "Violin Sonatas") is a real hit. Opening the package puts a wealth of information at the listener's fingertips; the very extensive liner notes are brilliantly written and provide a ...
Along with the likes of Heinrich Ignaz Biber and Johann Georg Pisendel, Franz Benda is another member of the class of Baroque composers who wrote (and performed) extensively for the virtuoso violin. Some of these names may seem somewhat unfamiliar, perhaps because they were not associated with the Italian school like Locatelli and Vivaldi. However ...
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