Andrew Manze, Richard Egarr, Fred Jacobs - Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: Violin Sonatas (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 348 Mb | Total time: 68:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | CG 06005 | Recorded: 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 348 Mb | Total time: 68:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | CG 06005 | Recorded: 1992
These sonatas for violin and continuo, dating from the court of the Holy Roman Empire in Innsbruck in 1660, are little known; perhaps the only other recording of them is a later one by their champion, Andrew Manze. If you like the woolly world of seventeenth century violin music, this composer belongs in your library. The later recording, which includes all the sonatas, lacks the theorbo heard in this 1992 performance, presumably reissued by Channel Classics in order to compete with Harmonia Mundi's release, but both are superb. The music's neglect is largely due to Pandolfi Mealli's obscurity; nothing is known of him beyond this group of works – not even whether a Sicilian composer named Pandolfi working around the same time was the same person or not.