Release Date: 14 January 2022
Label: First Hand Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060216349121
Description
The present recording consists of seven previously unrecorded wonderful violin sonatas from the early 18th century.
This is the second volume of a FHR series in which samples of the musical riches, that lie in the Dresden Schrank II collection, are brought to life through new recordings.
A large portion of the Schrank II manuscripts belonged to the composer/ violinist Johann Georg PISENDEL (1687-1755), who, whilst travelling throughout Europe, amassed a huge quantity of music, mostly manuscripts. Some he bought from music shops or receive directly from composers. Most, however, he copied out himself. This collection is one of the largest and most diverse repositories of late- baroque music in the world.
In this volume, there are three varied sonatas by Martin Bitti which resemble Corelli. A sonata by Henricus Albicastro who is of the South German school of compostion eg Schmeltzer, Biber, Vilsmayr, Walther, Westhoff and Muffat. A delightful sonata by Carlo Fiorelli. Finally, two anonymous sonatas which are both complex and intensely expressive, and possibly written by the composers G.G. Laurenti and A. Montanari.
The two brilliant musicians on this recording were chosen specifically for their incredible skills, musicianship and specialist baroque talent. Violinist Kinga Ujszászi and harpsichordist Tom Foster, both members of The English Concert baroque orchestra, give exciting and stylish performances in a wonderful crystal clear recorded sound.
"The Largo [Albicastro] teams with rhapsodic ideas marvellously developed by the two interpreters. The duo questioned, like many, the historical treatises on the art of accompaniment and on instrumental expression, but they transcend, by the naturalness of their realization, the codes of style and offer new expressive ways." ('Choc de Classica' – Classica Magazine)
"The icing on the cake, the sound recording is a model of its kind: it achieves a perfect balance between the instruments and restores the timbres with striking realism." ('Choc de Classica' – Classica Magazine)
Tracklisting
Noxwode, Conor Gricmanis
Tessa Lark, Jon Batiste, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer
David de Winter and The Brook Street Band
Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa; Alvaro Cassuto
The Flautadors Recorder Quartet
The Telling
Sarah Cahill
Kinga Ujszászi & Tom Foster
