The graphics for this Deutsche Grammophon release bill it as the first period-instrument recording of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001-1006, but it's not quite that simple. Veteran Italian violinist Giuliano Carmignola, hitherto known mostly for recordings of Italian Baroque music, has been taking on Bach's weighty violin masterpieces, and here he uses a 1733 Guarneri violin. This does not, of course, make it a period-instrument performance, for it is the other components that define the sound. The key ...
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The graphics for this Deutsche Grammophon release bill it as the first period-instrument recording of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001-1006, but it's not quite that simple. Veteran Italian violinist Giuliano Carmignola, hitherto known mostly for recordings of Italian Baroque music, has been taking on Bach's weighty violin masterpieces, and here he uses a 1733 Guarneri violin. This does not, of course, make it a period-instrument performance, for it is the other components that define the sound. The key equipment here is a set of bows by modern maker Emilio Slaviero, based on models by Nicolas Léonard Tourte, one of a pair of 18th century French brothers who, often working with the Italian violin virtuosi whose work formed the basis for Romantic violin technique, developed the forerunners of the modern bow. For many buyers, this will be enough incentive to check out Carmignola's set: his performance does not sound like any other. His tempi are flexible, and his performances have a...
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