Tartini - 30 Sonate Piccole for Solo Violin Vol.5 | Toccata Classics TOCC0454

Tartini - 30 Sonate Piccole for Solo Violin Vol.5

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0454

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd August 2019

Contents

Works

Tartini, Giuseppe

Sonatas (30) for solo violin
» no.25 in G major
» no.26 in B flat major
» no.27 in D minor
» no.28 in A minor
» no.29 in G major
» no.30 in E minor

Artists

Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)

Works

Tartini, Giuseppe

Sonatas (30) for solo violin
» no.25 in G major
» no.26 in B flat major
» no.27 in D minor
» no.28 in A minor
» no.29 in G major
» no.30 in E minor

Artists

Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)

About

In the last years of his life, the composer, violinist and swordsman Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) laboured at a vast cycle of sonatas for solo violin. The resulting manuscript offers the most important composition for solo violin after Bach and, at six hours in duration, the largest integrated work for the instrument. This first complete recording is based on a fresh study of the source and includes a number of works deciphered from Tartini’s shorthand and overlooked in earlier editions. These ‘Little Sonatas’ tread a delicate line between Baroque formality and proto-Romantic passion, occasionally illuminated with an echo of the folk-fiddling of his Slovenian homeland.

Peter Sheppard Skærved is known for his pioneering approach to the music of our own time and of the past. Over 400 works have been written for him. For Toccata Classics he has recorded two albums of David Matthews’s music for solo violin and the four earlier volumes in this cycle of Tartini’s Sonate piccole. His work with museums has resulted in long-term projects at institutions including the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, Galeria Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City and the National Portrait Gallery. Peter is the founder and leader of the Kreutzer Quartet and the artistic director of the ensemble Longbow. Viotti Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, he was elected Fellow there in 2013.

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