FLAC tracks +Booklet | Classical | 67:24 | 1CD | 380 MbIn the last years of his life, the composer, violinist and swordsman Giuseppe Tartini (16921770) laboured at a vast cycle of sonatas for solo violin.

The resulting manuscript offers the most important composition for solo violin after Bach and, at six hours in duration, the largest integrated work for the instrument.

This first complete recording is based on a fresh study of the source and includes a number of works deciphered from Tartinis shorthand and overlooked in earlier editions.

These Little Sonatas tread a delicate line between Baroque formality and proto-Romantic passion, occasionally illuminated with an echo of the folk-fiddling of his Slovenian homeland.

Tracklist:01. Violin Sonata No. 25 in G Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): I. Siciliano02. Violin Sonata No. 25 in G Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): II. Menuet03. Violin Sonata No. 25 in G Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): III. Giga04. Violin Sonata No. 25 in G Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): IV. Andante05. Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): I. Andante06. Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): II. Allegro07. Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): III. Allegro08. Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): IV. Menuet09. Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): V. Andante10. Violin Sonata No. 27 in D Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): I. Andante11. Violin Sonata No. 27 in D Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): II. Presto12. Violin Sonata No. 27 in D Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): III. Giga13. Violin Sonata No. 27 in D Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): IV. Tema con variazioni14. Violin Sonata No. 28 in A Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): I. Andante cantabile15. Violin Sonata No. 28 in A Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): II. Allegro16. Violin Sonata No. 28 in A Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): III. Allegro17. Violin Sonata No. 28 in A Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): IV. Giga18. Violin Sonata No. 28 in A Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): V. Tema con variazioni19. Violin Sonata No. 29 in G Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): I. Andante20. Violin Sonata No. 29 in G Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): II. Giga21. Violin Sonata No. 29 in G Major (Ed. P. S. Skærved): III. Menuet22. Violin Sonata No. 30 in E Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): I. Grave23. Violin Sonata No. 30 in E Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): II. Andante cantabile24. Violin Sonata No. 30 in E Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): III. Giga25. Violin Sonata No. 30 in E Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): IV. Minuet26. Violin Sonata No. 30 in E Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): V. Presto27. Violin Sonata No. 30 in E Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): VI. Aria cantabile28. Violin Sonata No. 30 in E Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): VII. Double – Minuet29. Violin Sonata No. 30 in E Minor (Ed. P. S. Skærved): VIII. Allegro