Violinist Robert Bachara uses extensive ornamentation in his performance, even through-composing and supplementing his part, to highlight the violin's equal stature in these sonatas.
Critical Reception
Pinto's music fell into oblivion after his early death at age 21 and was not truly rediscovered until the 21st century.
Critical Reception
Pinto's piano music was not fully understood during his lifetime, with critics in 1803 finding his bold and original ideas to be "chromatic incongruities" and "abrupt modulations."
Composer Biography
Pinto was a pupil of Johann Peter Salomon, a German violinist and composer who brought Haydn to London, and made his public debut as an 11-year-old playing a violin concerto.
Composer Biography
George Frederick Pinto, born George Sanders, took his mother's surname after his father's death and was a child prodigy who began playing the violin at a young age.
Compositional Technique
The sonatas on this album, though titled for piano "with violin accompaniment," feature parts of equal importance, likely because Pinto was a virtuoso of both instruments.
Critical Reception
A contemporary of Pinto, Salomon, believed that if Pinto had lived longer, England would have produced "a second Mozart."
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