Ilya Gringolts & Finnish Baroque Orchestra - Il labirinto armonico (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 3 No. 9: I. Allegro - Capriccio
02. Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 3 No. 9: II. Largo
03. Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 3 No. 9: III. Allegro - Capriccio
04. Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11: I. Allegro - Capriccio
05. Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11: II. Largo
06. Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11: III. Andante - Capriccio
07. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3 No. 12 "Il labirinto armonico": I. Allegro - Capriccio
08. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3 No. 12 "Il labirinto armonico": II. Largo - Presto - Adagio
09. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3 No. 12 "Il labirinto armonico": III. Allegro - Capriccio



Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli’s L'Arte del violino for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo took both violin technique and the solo concerto as a genre into a whole new realm. The twelve concertos included in the collection also played a part in forming the image of the violin virtuoso, reaching its full bloom with Paganini towards the end of the century. While the unusually high technical demands of the solo part are obvious to the listener from the start, the great surprise comes at the end of the first and third movements of each of the concertos.

Here Locatelli inserts Capriccios for the soloist alone of a difficulty previously unheard of, with a left hand technique making use of extensions, octaves, unprepared tenths, double and triple stopping, arpeggios and double trills. The writing also favours playing in extremely high positions: in Capriccio No. 22 (from the third movement of Concerto No. 11) rising broken thirds go as high as 17th position.

Ilya Gringolts, whose discography includes the better-known caprices by Paganini, has accepted Locatelli’s challenge, and here performs three of the L’Arte concertos. He does so with the support of the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, which he conducts from his gut-stringed violin by Ferdinando Gagliano, c. 1770.

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