Albertini: Sonates pour violon

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Date CD: July 20, 2002 | Alpha | 77:45

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Helene Schmitt is hot stuff. In this disc of violin sonatas by the nearly unknown Ignazio Albertini, the contemporary of Biber and Schmelzer comes passionately alive under her supple bow and sensitive fingers. In Schmitt's performances, the wildly virtuosic and extravagantly emotional music of Albertini sounds like it could only have been composed by a man stabbed to death in obscure circumstances. There's poise and grace in Schmitt's performances, as well elevated lyricism. But most of all there's passion: a passionate intensity of line, a passionate concentration of tone, a passionate brilliance of color, a passionate love of this fiercely expressive and violently beautiful music. Schmitt's trio of continuo players are sympathetic players and each gets his/her own sweet solo Prelude or Toccatina interspersed with Schmitt's Sonatas. Alpha's sound is tactile in its realism and its tiny but stunning reproduction of Guido Cagnacci's The Death of Cleopatra is a visual treat.

tracklist:


Sonata for violin & continuo No. 1 in D minor
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 2 in F major
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 3 in B minor
Angelo Michele Bartolotti - Prelude
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 4 in C minor
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 5 in A major
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 7 in A minor
Ferdinand Tobias Richter - Toccata
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 8 in D minor
Angelo Michele Bartolotti - Prelude
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 10 in E minor
Johann Kaspar Kerll - Toccata No 5 for keyboard
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 11 in G minor
Sonata for violin & continuo No. 12 in A minor


Hélène Schmitt, violon
Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, clavecin & orgue
Karl-Ernst Schröder, théorbe
David Sinclair, violone

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