Composer: Giuseppe Tartini
Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0146
Release: 2012
Size: 313 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
30 piccole sonate: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major (edited by P. Sheppard Skaerved)
01. I. Molto andante
02. II. Allegro cantabile
03. III. Allegro
04. IV. Giga
30 piccole sonate: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor (edited by P. Sheppard Skaerved)
05. I. Siciliana
06. II. Allegro
07. III. Allegro affettuoso
30 piccole sonate: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D major (edited by P. Sheppard Skaerved)
08. I. Andante cantabile
09. II. Allegro
10. III. Giga: Allegro
11. IV. Allegro assai
30 piccole sonate: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C major (edited by P. Sheppard Skaerved)
12. I. Andante cantabile
13. II. Allegro assai
14. III. Grave
15. IV. Presto
30 piccole sonate: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major (edited by P. Sheppard Skaerved)
16. I. Andante cantabile
17. II. Allegro
18. III. Allegro assai
19. IV. Il tormento di questo cuore
30 piccole sonate: Violin Sonata No. 6 in E minor (edited by P. Sheppard Skaerved)
20. I. Andante cantabile
21. II. Allegro cantabile
22. III. Giga
In the last years of his life, the great composer, violinist and swordsman Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) laboured at a vast cycle of sonatas for solo violin.
These days Tartini is remembered by the general public only for his ‘Devil’s Trill’ Sonata but he is a far more important composer than that work would suggest: taken together, these sonatas form the most important composition for solo violin after Bach. Indeed, at six hours in duration, it is the largest integrated work for the instrument.
The music is surprisingly lyrical, often with echoes of folk-music from Tartini’s Istrian homeland.
This first complete recording – launched in the year which sees the 320th anniversary of Tartini’s birth – is based on a fresh study of the source and includes a number of works in Tartini’s shorthand, overlooked in earlier editions, and deciphered by the solo violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved for the first time.