Geminiani: Violin Sonatas, Op. 1 / Ruhadze, Nepomnyashchaya

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
April 22, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Francesco Geminiani
    • PERFORMER
      Igor Rughadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 22, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421965246
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96524
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio - Presto - Adagio - Presto - Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    2. II. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    3. III. Grave - Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    4. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    5. I. Grave

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    6. II. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    7. III. Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    8. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    9. I. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio - Tempo justo - Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    10. II. Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    11. III. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    12. I. Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    13. II. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    14. III. Grave

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    15. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    16. I. Affettuoso

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    17. II. Vivace

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    18. III. Grave

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    19. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    20. I. Affetuoso

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    21. II. Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    22. III. Allegro assai

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    23. I. Grave

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    24. II. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    25. III. Grave

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    26. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    27. I. Affettuoso

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    28. II. Vivace

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    29. III. Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    30. IV. Vivace

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    31. I. Vivace

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    32. II. Andante

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    33. III. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    34. I. Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    35. II. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    36. III. Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    37. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    38. I. Vivace

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    39. II. Affetuoso

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    40. III. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    41. I. Amoroso - Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    42. II. Allegro - Adagio

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    43. III. Allegro

      Composer: Francesco Geminiani

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya


Igor Ruhadze’s Brilliant Classics recording of sonatas by Locatelli (94736) won warm praise from Gramophone. ‘The playing is elegantly supple, the string tone warm, and the architecture of individual movements thoughtfully worked out. All this makes for a pleasant mood and enjoyable listening. The more exuberant pieces are brilliantly and at times breathtakingly performed.’ With his latest Brilliant Classics album, the Russian Baroque-specialist violinist and director turns to another pivotal figure in Baroque-era violin culture, Francesco Geminiani.

Taught first by his violinist father and then by both Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti in Rome, Geminiani was already a leading figure in north Italian courts in his 20s, before he undertook the move to London that made his name and fortune. Geminiani dedicated the Op.1 Sonatas (1716) to Baron Johann Adolf Kielmansegge, his first London patron. According to Hawkins, Kielmansegge favored the composer by arranging a performance before the king in which Geminiani was accompanied on the harpsichord by Handel. With these sonatas, which clearly stem from Corelli, Geminiani presented himself to the public as Corelli's pupil. Many imitation editions followed the first printing, but the commentator Charles Burney maintained that only the composer himself could do them full justice. Apparently designed as a calling card for Geminiani’s talents as a violinist-composer, the Op.1 Sonatas still make strenuous technical but also expressive demands on any interpreter. Their genteel surface and polished dialogue between parts conceals an array of sophisticated contrasts between moods and demonstration of a violinist’s credentials as an artist as well as a technician.

For this new recording, Igor Ruhadze is joined not by his colleagues in the Violini Capricciosi ensemble but the Russian-born harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya. Having pursued graduate studies with early-music luminaries such as Richard Egarr and Menno van Delft, she too evinces intense sympathy with Geminiani’s idiom.