November 29, 2010
On November 24th, I played my reconstruction of Tartini’s unpublished 28th Piccola Sonata, as part of my last concert exploring all 30 sonatas. Here it is. 03 Track 3Tartin-Piccola Sonata No. 27 Giuseppe Tartini-A minor Sonata No28 PSS-Violin (Stradivari ‘Joachim’ 1698) Recording courtesy of Colin Still (optic nerve)
November 27, 2010
Vitali-Diverse Sonate e Partite Nicholas Mori-Prelude Paganini-A major Prelude Paganini-Adieu a Londres Edward Eliason-Farewell to my friend Paganini Charles De Beriot-Prelude Ole Bull-Capriccio Francois Cramer Cammillo Sivori-A Capriccio John Loder-Caprice Bach-Largo (C Major Solo Sonata) Concert performance St Barthololomew the Great 2007 Tartini-7th Sonata Piccola (A minor) Andante Cantabile Westhoff-D major Sarabande Biber-Ciaconne (Extract) Andre […]
November 25, 2010
Johann Michael Haydn I have long been fascinated with the music of Johann Michael Haydn, a great innovator and influence on the teenage Mozart. Here are some extracts from a CD that I made of his work some years ago. (Meridian CDE84243) PSS – Violin / Director Parnassus Ensemble of London Michael Haydn 1st […]
November 23, 2010
Composer of the Day As my fascination with this set of pieces grew, with a concomitant question of how best to present the sequence, there were moments of doubt. The great Tartini scholar, Paul Brainard, last published material on these pieces in 1961. He responded with barely concealed scorn to Giovanni Guglielmo’s Edition 1970 edition for […]
November 13, 2010
Zubin Kanga, E-Bow, Steinway Piano. David Gorton ‘Fosdyke Wash’ 12-11-2010 Rosetta Caprice (PSS-Violin) David Gorton with Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, and Neil Heyde. RAM. November 12th 2010 “I realised that musical languages that are disparate in terms of their syntax and context (harmonic and otherwise), may assume a common resonance and meaning […]
November 7, 2010
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