Martha Walvoord - Works for Violin By Matthew Tommasini - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For the biographer Karl Holl chamber music was InchFriedrich Gernsheim's very special artistic domain.Inch The composer again and again returned to this field during the course of his life, from his beginnings in Leipzig and Paris to his later Berlin years. The violin sonatas in particular stand out in this group within his oeuvre because they, more than any other genre, document his compositional development. Things began with the fourteen-year-old's Sonata in E minor, composed for exercise purposes in Leipzig and heard here for the first time on album, and continued by way of his op. 4, his first full-fledged contribution to this genre, to the mature opp. 50, 64, and 85, with thirteen to fourteen years separating the composition of each of these works. The fourth sonata, a work dedicated to Henri Marteau, may be regarded as the high point of Gernsheim's duo oeuvre here his contrapuntal line of thought, something that he had always cultivated, extends over the entire composition.

Girolamo Frescobaldi was the most celebrated keyboard musician, teacher and composer in Italy in his day, serving various nobility and the Church in Rome from 1608 until his death in 1643. He had the greatest influence of any musician during his time.

Various Artists - Virtuoso Violin [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/06/2018