Italian Violin Music of the Baroque Era, Volume I

VIOLIN MUSIC

Paul Brainard (Editor)

Karl Röhrig (Fingering and bowing for Violin)

Siegfried Petrenz (Figured bass realisation)

Instrumental virtuosity and the new impulses of baroque thought are to be found in the solo sonatas that came into being in Italy from the early decades of the 17th century. Both aspects have been taken into account when selecting pieces for this interesting collected edition of Italian violin music of the baroque era. The first volume concentrates on two groups: on the one hand on Corelli in Rome, Torelli in Bologna and Veracini in Florence; and on the other, on the three famous representatives of the last generation of Italian baroque composers – Geminiani, Tartini and Locatelli – whose sphere of influence extended from Padua via Amsterdam to England. All the works have been edited on the basis of the original sources, and therefore provide, in the tried and tested Urtext manner, a clear view of these baroque treasures. The preface gives explanatory notes on performance practice and basso continuo realization, and a list of variant readings rounds off this well-researched Urtext edition.

• Arcangelo Corelli Violin Sonata D major op. 5,1
• Francesco Geminiani Violin Sonata B flat major op. 1,5
• Francesco Geminiani Violin Sonata C major op. 4,3
• Pietro Locatelli Violin Sonata c minor op. 6,5V
• Pietro Locatelli Violin Sonata d minor op. 6,12
• Giuseppe Tartini Sinfonia C major (First Edition)
• Giuseppe Tartini Violin Sonata d minor (First Edition)
• Giuseppe Torelli Violin Concertino D major op. 4,1
• Giuseppe Torelli Violin Concertino d minor op. 4,2
• Antonio Veracini Violin Sonata c minor op. 2,8V
• Antonio Veracini Violin Sonata B flat major op. 3,6