Composer: Giuseppe Colombi, Giovanni Battista Vitali
Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Divine Art
Catalogue: ATH23214
Release: 2022
Size: 2.35 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino
01. I. Toccata
02. II. Bergamasca per la lettera B
03. III. Ruggiero per la lettera B
04. IV. Capriccio sopra li cinque passi
05. V. Capriccio di tromba
06. VI. Furlana
07. VII. Passo e mezzo per la lettera E
08. VIII. Barabano
Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie
09. Tromba da violino solo, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.282
10. A Corde Doppie, Mus.E.34
11. Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (1)
12. Corrente, Mus.F.283
13. Corrente a due corde, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.280
14. Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (2)
15. Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (3)
16. Sarabanda, Mus.F.283 (1)
17. Giga, Mus.F.283
18. Sarabanda, Mus.F.283 (2)
19. Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (4)
20. Scordatura, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.282
21. Ciacona a solo, Mus.E.282
22. Passemezzo, Mus. F.283
Jenkins: Rost Codex
23. Allemande in D Major
24. Allemande in A Major (1)
25. Allemande in A Major (2)
26. CXI. Sonata in A Major
As well as being internationally recognised as a leading interpreter of music new and old, Peter Sheppard Skærved is the only violinist to have performed on the personal violins of Viotti, Paganini, Joachim, Kreisler and Ole Bull. He is a renowned soloist, musicologist, writer, painter and educator at the Royal Academy, and in 2022 appointed as Honorary Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music. This album features perhaps some of the best (certainly best-known) works by the top two violin composers working in Modena, Italy, at the end of the 17th century. Vitali and Colombi were both quite prolific and produced pieces of wide variety of form, not whittled down to the standard ‘dance suite’ of the middle and late baroque. While the Vitali works have been recorded previously in a version for ensemble, this is the first recording of the pieces in their solo format – and the same applies to the Colombi and anonymous pieces. The album is a fine and fitting sequel to Skærved’s previous solo recording “Florish in the Key” (Athene ATH23211) which presented contemporaneous (late 17th century) solo violin music from London. “Genuinely intriguing” – Early Music Review; “Excellent… instantly attractive… uniformly high quality” – Infodad.