Westhoff - Sei partite a violino 1696
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Label: Arcana
Cat No: A354
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 29th March 2010
Contents
Works
Partia III in B flat majorPartia II in A major
Partia IV in C major
Partia I in A minor
Partia VI in D major
Partia V in D minor
Artists
Gunar Letzbor (violin)Works
Partia III in B flat majorPartia II in A major
Partia IV in C major
Partia I in A minor
Partia VI in D major
Partia V in D minor
Artists
Gunar Letzbor (violin)About
Two details in the career of von Westhoff (1656-1705) draw our attention to him and his solo violin suites. First, he was one of the leading violin virtuosos of his time who, in his later years, served at the Weimar court of Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar along with the teenaged Johann Sebastian Bach. Second, he is the composer of the earliest collection of suites for the unaccompanied violin, printed in 1696.
Westhoff was therefore not only a violinist of wide renown and the first to conceive a cycle of unaccompanied violin suites, but also a likely inspiration for Bach’s own violin playing and his eventual sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin.
Recorded February 18th - 21st 2009, Sala della Musica di Villa San Remigio, Verbania (Italy).
First complete recording on period instruments (Violin: Sebastian Klotz; Bow: Daniel Latour).
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