FLAC tracks +Booklet | Classical | 01:17:27 | 424 MbDimitry Sinkovsky is a dazzlingly multi-talented artist –a brilliant violinist, countertenor, conductor, and founder in 2011 of the ensemble La Voce Strumentale.

In Virtuosissimo, his fifth venture with Naïve, he has teamed up again with the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, his partners in numerous recordings and concerts, to cast more light on Pisendel, a celebrated violinist and composer who led the prestigious Dresden Court Orchestra, and a Vivaldi devotee who copied out several of the Venetian master’s concertos for performance in Dresden.

Virtuosissimois a photography of an influential moment in music history.

With this new album, Dmitry Sinkovsky goes beyond Vivaldi and his influences: as well as Pisendel, he plays works by Locatelli, Tartini, Leclair and Telemann, all of whom enriched the early 18th-century violin repertoire with opulent, highly personal works focusing on soloistic bravura.

A century later, Paganini was to draw on this baroque heritage.

All the concertos here have inspired high-wire performances to Dmitry Sinkovsky: fiery exchanges with the orchestra, cunningly crafted cadences, vertiginous harmonics, startlingly unexpected bowing, sharp-edged attacks, daunting double-stopping… Sinkovsky seems to completely embody these five concertos, as if propelled by an inextinguishable flame: the electrifying result is truly ‘virtuosissimo’.

Tracklist:01. L’arte del violino, Op. 3, Concerto No. 1 in D Major: I. Allegro-Capriccio02. L’arte del violino, Op. 3, Concerto No. 1 in D Major: II. Largo03. L’arte del violino, Op. 3, Concerto No. 1 in D Major: III. Allegro-Capriccio04. Violin Concerto in G Minor, JunP I. 1: I. Largo e staccato05. Violin Concerto in G Minor, JunP I. 1: II. Allegro06. Violin Concerto in G Minor, JunP I. 1: III. Largo07. Violin Concerto in G Minor, JunP I. 1: IV. Allegro08. 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in D Major: I. Adagio09. 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in D Major: II. Allegro ma non troppo10. 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in D Major: III. Adagio11. 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in D Major: IV. Allegro12. Concerto in A Minor D. 115: I. Andante cantabile-Allegro assai13. Concerto in A Minor D. 115: II. Andante cantabile14. Concerto in A Minor D. 115: III. Presto15. Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, TWV 51:B1: I. Largo16. Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, TWV 51:B1: II. Vivace17. Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, TWV 51:B1: III. Sempre piano18. Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, TWV 51:B1: IV. Allegro