Finnish Baroque Orchestra

Ilya Gringolts & Finnish Baroque Orchestra – Il labirinto armonico (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:33 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli’s L’Arte del violino for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo took both violin technique and the solo concerto as a genre into a whole new realm. The twelve concertos included in the collection also played a part in forming the image of the violin virtuoso, reaching its full bloom with Paganini towards the end of the century. While the unusually high technical demands of the solo part are obvious to the listener from the start, the great surprise comes at the end of the first and third movements of each of the concertos.

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