Colombi & Vitali: The Violin in Modena / Sheppard Skærved

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Label
Athene
Release Date
October 14, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Anonymous, Giuseppe Colombi, Giovanni Battista Vitali
    • PERFORMER
      Peter Sheppard Skaerved
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 14, 2022
    • UPC
      809730321429
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ATHCD23214
    • LABEL
      Athene
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Toccata

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    2. II. Bergamasca per la lettera B

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    3. III. Ruggiero per la lettera B

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    4. IV. Capriccio sopra li cinque passi

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    5. V. Capriccio di tromba

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    6. VI. Furlana

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    7. VII. Passo e mezzo per la lettera E

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    8. VIII. Barabano

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    9. I. Tromba da violino solo [Mus. F.283 and Mus.e.282]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    10. II. A corde doppie [Mus E.34]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    11. III. Allemanda I [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    12. IV. Corrente [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    13. V. Corrente a due corde [Mus. F.283 and Mus. E.280]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    14. VI. Allemanda II [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    15. VII. Allemanda III [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    16. VIII. Sarabanda I [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    17. IX. Giga [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    18. X. Sarabanda II [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    19. XI. Allemanda IV [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    20. XII. Scordatura [Mus. F.283 and E.282]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    21. XIII. Ciacona a solo [Mus. E.282]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    22. XIV. Passemezzo [Mus. F.283]

      Composer: Giuseppe Colombi

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    23. Allemanda in D Major [Rost Codex]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    24. Allemanda in A Major [Rost Codex]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    25. Allemanda in A Major [Rost Codex]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    26. Sonatina in A Major [Rost Codex]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved


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)