Peter Sheppard Skærved - The Violin in Modena (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: I. Toccata
02. Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: II. Bergamasca per la lettera B
03. Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: III. Ruggiero per la lettera B
04. Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: IV. Capriccio sopra li cinque passi
05. Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: V. Capriccio di tromba
06. Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VI. Furlana
07. Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VII. Passo e mezzo per la lettera E
08. Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VIII. Barabano
09. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Tromba da violino solo, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.282
10. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): A Corde Doppie, Mus.E.34
11. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (1)
12. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Corrente, Mus.F.283
13. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Corrente a due corde, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.280
14. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (2)
15. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (3)
16. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Sarabanda, Mus.F.283 (1)
17. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Giga, Mus.F.283
18. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Sarabanda, Mus.F.283 (2)
19. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (4)
20. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Scordatura, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.282
21. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Ciacona a solo, Mus.E.282
22. Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Passemezzo, Mus. F.283
23. Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in D Major
24. Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in A Major (1)
25. Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in A Major (2)
26. Rost Codex (Excerpts): CXI. Sonata in A Major

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 ATH 23211) which presented contemporaneous (late 17th century) solo violin music from London. “Genuinely intriguing” – Early Music Review; “Excellent… instantly attractive… uniformly high quality” – Infodad)

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 was appointed as Honorary Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music.

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