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It is not often that previously unknown instrumental compositions by Albinoni (1671-1751) turn up, but Michael Talbot recently found two violin sonatas - one from the very start of his career and the...

Michele Mascitti (1663/4-1760), was a Neapolitan violinist who settled in Paris in 1704. This substantial trio sonata, the only one of its type that he published (and perhaps wrote) was included in hi...

The 'divertissement' Psiché, a ten-movement suite for violin and basso continuo by Michele Mascitti (1663/4-1760), the Neapolitan violinist who did more than anyone else to acclimatize the Italian son...

In 1772 John Addison brought out in Edinburgh a volume containing six duets in the form of three- or four-movement sonatas for two unaccompanied violins, his only works to survive. Such duets were hig...

An imaginative and punchy solo work; highly structured.

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's [VI] Sonates en Trio Pour deux Violons avec la Baße Op. 18, which appeared in 1727, are veritable gems of high baroque French instrumental music.

Iberian Refractions was written in response to a piece of Old Hispanic medieval chant, which gradually works its way into the music movement by movement. The chant melody infiltrates all aspects of th...

Like so many of his compatriots, the Czech-born Vaclav Pichl spent much of his working life in Vienna (where the Empress Maria Theresa, preferred him to Mozart), but with a period working for Dittersd...

The main movements, introitus and gradual, have distinctive central ideas - the manic string-crossing chaos of the first and the rather more introspective and mellifluous material of the second. Both...

Francois Devienne's music has long been highly rated for its grace and balance. One of the first professors of flute at the new Conservatoire in 1795, Devienne's Flute Concertos played by the composer...

La Montanari has a five-movement plan with a 'double' finale: a finale of normal length is followed by a miniature second finale, like coffee following a dessert. The model for this arrangement may ha...

An 'operatic' concerto full of drama. Wonderfully violinistic throughout and a delight to play for intermediate and virtuoso alike. The vivid ritornellos and extrovert solo episodes makes this a highl...

A wonderful concerto in the galant manner.

Over the beautiful second movement Tartini wrote I know you have no mercy using his secret code. With the outer movements this concerto is a first class representative of the 18th century concerto. Ca...

This Sonata in A major belonging to the 'London' group was published by John Walsh in January 1704 as the opening work in a series of violin sonatas by different composers delivered to subscribers in...

The twelve 'Cambridge' sonatas, presented to Cardinal Ottoboni, represent the 'late', galant Bitti, full of lovingly sculpted ornamental detail for the violin but with the same resourceful harmony and...

The twelve 'Cambridge' sonatas, presented to Cardinal Ottoboni, represent the 'late', galant Bitti, full of lovingly sculpted ornamental detail for the violin but with the same resourceful harmony and...