Composer: Giuseppe Tartini
Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0454
Release: 2019
Size: 711 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sonata No. 25 in G Major
01. I. Siciliano
02. II. Menuet
03. III. Giga
04. IV. Andante
Sonata No. 26 in B flat major
05. I. Andante
06. II. Allegro
07. III. Allegro
08. IV. Menuet
09. V. Andante
Sonata No. 27 in D minor
10. I. Andante
11. II. Presto
12. III. Giga
13. IV. Tema con variazioni
Sonata No. 28 in A minor
14. I. Andante cantabile
15. II. Allegro
16. III. Allegro
17. IV. Giga
18. V. Tema con variazioni
Sonata No. 29 in G major
19. I. Andante
20. II. Giga
21. III. Menuet
Violin Sonata No. 30 in E minor
22. I. Grave
23. II. Andante cantabile
24. III. Giga
25. IV. Minuet
26. V. Presto
27. VI. Aria cantabile
28. VII. Double – Minuet
29. VIII. Allegro
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 Tartinis 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.