The Violin in Modena Peter Sheppard Skærved

• Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632 - 1692): Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino:
• 1Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: I. Toccata01:01
• 2Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: II. Bergamasca per la lettera B03:07
• 3Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: III. Ruggiero per la lettera B02:55
• 4Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: IV. Capriccio sopra li cinque passi01:25
• 5Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: V. Capriccio di tromba02:27
• 6Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VI. Furlana02:00
• 7Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VII. Passo e mezzo per la lettera E06:20
• 8Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VIII. Barabano02:57
• Giuseppe Colombi (1635 - 1694): Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts):
• 9Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Tromba da violino solo, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.28204:11
• 10Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): A Corde Doppie, Mus.E.3403:10
• 11Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (1)01:47
• 12Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Corrente, Mus.F.28302:00
• 13Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Corrente a due corde, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.28001:12
• 14Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (2)01:28
• 15Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (3)02:26
• 16Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Sarabanda, Mus.F.283 (1)03:49
• 17Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Giga, Mus.F.28301:30
• 18Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Sarabanda, Mus.F.283 (2)02:26
• 19Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (4)02:43
• 20Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Scordatura, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.28201:12
• 21Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Ciacona a solo, Mus.E.28203:38
• 22Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Passemezzo, Mus. F.28304:30
• John Jenkins (1592 - 1678): Rost Codex (Excerpts):
• 23Jenkins: Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in D Major01:50
• Anonymous: Rost Codex (Excerpts):
• 24Anonymous: Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in A Major (1)01:30
• 25Anonymous: Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in A Major (2)01:17
• 26Anonymous: Rost Codex (Excerpts): CXI. Sonata in A Major04:34
• Total Runtime01:07:25

Info for The Violin in Modena

As well as being internationally recognized as a leading interpreter of music new and old, Peter Sheppard Skærved is the only violinist to have performed on the personal violins of Viotti, Paganini, Joachim, Kreisler and Ole Bull. He is a renowned soloist, musicologist, writer, painter and educator at the Royal Academy, and in 2022 appointed as Honorary Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music. This album features perhaps some of the best (certainly best-known) works by the top two violin composers working in Modena, Italy, at the end of the 17th century. Vitali and Colombi were both quite prolific and produced pieces of wide variety of form, not whittled down to the standard ‘dance suite’ of the middle and late baroque. While the Vitali works have been recorded previously in a version for ensemble, this is the first recording of the pieces in their solo format – and the same applies to the Colombi and anonymous pieces. The album is a fine and fitting sequel to Skærved’s previous solo recording “Florish in the Key” (Athene ATH 23211) which presented contemporaneous (late 17th century) solo violin music from London. “Genuinely intriguing” – Early Music Review; “Excellent… instantly attractive… uniformly high quality” – Infodad)

Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin

Peter Sheppard Skærved
is known for his pioneering approach to the music of the past and of our own time. He regularly appears as soloist in over 30 countries, and has released over 70 albums, ranging from 17th century solo works to many of 400-plus works dedicated to him, by composers including George Rochberg, Judith Weir, Poul Ruders, David Matthews and Michael Finnissy. He is a Grammy nominee, for his cycle of Henze concerti. This spring he has released five new albums, of Schubert Sonatas with square piano, Edward Cowie solos and quartets, Peter Dickinson sonatas, the Gregory Rose Concerto, and the first recording of the 100-movement Klagenfurt Manuscript (1685). His work with museums has resulted in long-term projects at institutions including the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, Galeria Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, and the exhibition ‘Only Connect’, which he curated at the National Portrait Gallery, London. His ‘Tegner’, commissioned by the Bergen International Festival, a close collaboration with the major Norwegian abstract artist, Jan Groth, premiered at Kunsthallen, Bergen, and travelled to Denmark, the US and even Svalbard/Spitzbergen. He is founder and leader of the acclaimed Kreutzer Quartet. He is the ‘Viotti Lecturer’ at the Royal Academy of Music, he was elected Fellow there in 2013. He is married to the Danish writer Malene Skærved and they live in Wapping.

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