Elizabeth Wallfisch, The Locatelli Trio - Giuseppe Tartini: The Devil's Trill & other violin sonatas (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 448 Mb | Total time: 73:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66430 | Recorded: 1990
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 448 Mb | Total time: 73:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66430 | Recorded: 1990
Half a century ago, Giuseppe Tartini might have been the only composer of the Italian Baroque most classical music listeners could name. That was thanks to the so-called Devil's Trill, which appears as the final track on disc one of this two-disc set. Here one can experience the "trillo del Diavolo" in its proper place, as the final movement of a three-movement Sonata in G minor for violin and continuo, and within a larger slice of his output: this pairing of two previously released discs also includes a published set of violin sonatas from around the time of the Devil's Trill (around the early 1730s), and several later sonatas with a goodly degree of novelty on disc two. In a way, the rest of the music makes the Devil's Trill seem less remarkable.
