Tartini: Sonatas for Solo Violin

Featuring

Črtomir Šiškovič
Giuseppe Tartini

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Recording & Production

The album features rare repertoire, with very few existing recordings of these sonatas.

Recording & Production

This album is the first of two recordings that will cover Giuseppe Tartini's Sonatas for solo violin in full.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Giuseppe Tartini, the composer, aimed to achieve in instrumental music the same 'affections' found in the arias of Metastasio's operas, using a language suited to the violin.

Performer Biography

Črtomir Šiškovič, the performer, has toured extensively across Europe, the United States, Japan, China, and Mongolia, performing in major concert halls.

Compositional Technique

Tartini's sonatas often include mottos and literary quotations, such as from Metastasio's arias or Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, which he also used in his concertos.

Compositional Technique

Tartini's music features inexhaustible melodic creativity, avoiding easy symmetries and predictable developments, and includes hints of popular songs and dances.

Composer Biography

Giuseppe Tartini, the composer, was a self-contained figure who disdained the world around him and possessed a creative power typical of 'great anachronistic men'.