A notable specialist in Baroque music, violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch might be expected to perform Vivaldi's Op. 2 sonatas with full mastery of the period's style and meticulous execution, if nothing more. Yet Wallfisch is a well-rounded musician, having achieved a reputation for interpretive excellence in all periods and styles, from Baroque to ...
Mozart's flute quartets could stand alone as a prime example for the significant influence that publishers exerted over a composer's work. The Quartet K. 285 underwent key changes and movement substitutions under K. 285a, and additional key changes and perhaps author changes under K. 285b (the actual composer of these two movements is the subject ...
Of all the ways to hear Rossini's Sonatas for strings -- for string quartet, for chamber string orchestra, for full-blown string orchestra -- no doubt the best way is to hear them played in the original string quartet version. As this lovely 1992 recording by the ad hoc quartet made up of first violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch, second violinist ...
Many listeners are familiar with Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni through his so-called Adagio for violin, strings, and organ . Recordings of that work usually warn the listener that it is not an authentic Albinoni composition but a reconstruction and amplification by a modern scholar of an Albinoni fragment found in a manuscript. ...
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Rosary Sonatas were written in Salzburg in the 1670s or 1680s, and they're really unlike anything else in the violin literature. Scordatura, or unconventional tuning of an instrument's strings, was common enough during the Baroque era, but Biber's cycle of 15 pieces for violin and continuo explores the technique ...
Although Domenico Gabrielli performed as an accomplished and highly sought-after cellist throughout the majority of his short life, his limited compositions for the cello came only from his last two years. This Cello Classics album features Gabrielli's complete cello works as well several other short works from the High Baroque, yet this CD is ...
The music of Newcastle-based composer Charles Avison is becoming more frequently recorded. His Italian-style trio sonatas, here designated Six Sonatas for two violins and a bass, Op. 1, were written under the influence of Avison's teacher Geminiani and thus come down in a line directly from Corelli. Each is in four movements, with a good deal of ...
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