Composer: Giuseppe Tartini
Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0208
Release: 2013
Size: 376 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
25 piccole sonate per violino e violoncello e per violino solo: Violin Sonata No. 7 in A minor
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Allegro
03. III. Tema con variazioni
04. IV. (Allegro assai)
25 piccole sonate per violino e violoncello e per violino solo: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G minor
05. I. Andante
06. II. Allegro
07. III. Affettuoso
08. IV. Allegro assai
25 piccole sonate per violino e violoncello e per violino solo: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major
09. I. Largo andante
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Allegro
12. IV. Allegro assai
13. V. Menuet
25 piccole sonate per violino e violoncello e per violino solo: Violin Sonata No. 10 in B major
14. I. Largo
15. II. Allegro
16. III. Subito affettuoso
17. IV. Menuet
25 piccole sonate per violino e violoncello e per violino solo: Violin Sonata No. 11 in E major
18. I. Andante cantabile
19. II. Allegro
20. III. (Siciliana)
21. IV. Menuet
22. V. Allegro assai
25 piccole sonate per violino e violoncello e per violino solo: Violin Sonata No. 12 in G major
23. I. Aria del Tasso
24. II. Grave, “Il tormento di quest’anima”
25. III. Canzone venetiana
26. III. Aria. Quanto mai felici siete
27. IV. Tema con variazione
In the last years of his life, the great composer, violinist and swordsman Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) laboured at a cycle of sonatas for solo violin. 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. At six hours in duration, it is the largest integrated work for the instrument. The music is surprisingly lyrical, and frequently has echoes of folk-music from Tartini’s Istrian homeland. This complete recording 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.