Partitions pour instruments à cordes

Contains: Handel * Debussy * Purcell * Elgar * Massenet

From four respected composers: Vocalise (Rachmaninoff) * The Little Negro (Debussy) * Pavane (Faure) * Song to the Evening Star (Wagner).

Written by Tartini as a young man, this concerto offers the soloist rewarding opportunities to dazzle. In the initial Allegro, polyphonic writing alternates with virtuouso sections full of runs and do...

From Tartini's third compositional period, this concerto in three movements has been prepared using the primary source of Tartini's autograph.

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...

The three 'Dresden' sonatas published together in this volume are believed to be the first-ever modern edition of any of his chamber music.The edition comes complete with a preface, textual notes, a r...

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...

L'argile, la forme, le ravin du monde (Argil, shape, the world's ravine), can be read Le matériau, la forme, le Tao (Material, shape, Tao). There are but four ingredients: my fetish tone row, a very l...

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...

Prepared from all four known sources, this concerto from Tartini's first compositional period emerges as a masterpiece.

Typically for Bitti's earlier sonatas, the Sonata in B flat major that heads the London group features four movements in the standard configuration for chamber sonatas of the time: a prelude-like slow...

Typically for Bitti's earlier sonatas, the Sonata in C minor belonging to the London group features four movements in the standard configuration for chamber sonatas of the time: a prelude-like slow op...

Unusually for Bitti's earlier sonatas, the Sonata in G minor belonging to the London group features only three movements: a prelude-like slow opening movement full of melodic eloquence, followed by a...

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 sonata in D minor captures the traditional mood of this key: serious-minded and a little plaintive. The second of its four movements, a corrente-like fast movement in triple metre, reminds one of...