Release Date: 30 November 2016
Label: Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113443663
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: PINTO
Description
Did ‘the British Mozart’ drink himself to death? George Frederick Pinto (1785–1806) was a child prodigy both as performer – on violin and piano – and as composer. But he was only twenty when he died, probably from tuberculosis or from what one writer called ‘dissipation’. He is thus is one of the major ‘what-ifs’ of music history:, the music he composed in the little time he had reveals a composer as gifted as almost any of his contemporaries. These three quirky and inventive violin sonatas – receiving their first recordings here – sit on the cusp of Romanticism, their Classical elegance warmed by a graceful lyricism that looks forward to Schubert.
Sinfonia Varsovia; Ian Hobson
Tuuli Lindeberg; Martin Malmgren
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Andrew Manze
Dobromir Tsenov
Various Artists
Tamas Fejes; Balazs Renczes; Christopher Guild
Nora Luse
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra; Imants Resnis
