If you're looking for a recording of Locatelli's complete Opus 8 Violin Sonatas, look no further. These 1994 recordings by the aptly named Locatelli Trio are not only superbly played and beautifully recorded, they have the singular virtue of being the only available recordings of the works. That's alright: with violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch at the ...
Many listeners are familiar with Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni through his so-called Adagio for violin, strings, and organ . Recordings of that work usually warn the listener that it is not an authentic Albinoni composition but a reconstruction and amplification by a modern scholar of an Albinoni fragment found in a manuscript. ...
Baroque violin virtuoso Francesco Maria Veracini, though hardly a household name, led a storied life. He went mad for a time (perhaps due to his dabbles in alchemy, or even a plot by his rivals), he once fell (or perhaps jumped...or was pushed) from an upper-story window, and he lost his prized matched pair of Stainer violins with which he ...
As fine a series of recordings as has been made in the digital era, Peter Holman's The English Orpheus with his Parley of Instruments is a brilliant, moving, and revelatory series of recordings illuminating the greatness of English music between 1600 and 1800. And if the phrase greatness of English music sounds absurd, which in too many ...
Half a century ago, Giuseppe Tartini might have been the only composer of the Italian Baroque most classical music listeners could name. That was thanks to the so-called Devil's Trill, which appears as the final track on disc one of this two-disc set. Here one can experience the "trillo del Diavolo" in its proper place, as the final movement of a ...
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