(2017) The violin’s delight - a garden of pleasure, 17th Century Virtuoso Violin Music Stephen Somary Associazione Scarlatti in Naples

Associazione Scarlatti in Naples

Or perhaps even more because of its “Hinsz” temperament

but also among Bach's most brilliant keyboard compositions

The author André Suarès summarized in a beautiful formula the paradox of Liszt transcriptions

The last movement is in sonata form

(2017) The violin’s delight - a garden of pleasure, 17th Century Virtuoso Violin Music Stephen Somary Associazione Scarlatti in NaplesAbout this album Wohl gepflanzter Violinischer Lust Garten (Well Planted Violin Pleasure Garden) such was the title employed by Johann Jacob Walther for a second printing of the sonata like preludes for solo violin and basso continuo originally issued back in 1688. Published in Mainz in 1694, the re edition reaffirmed his reputation as a virtuoso master violinist with a further compositional calling card. Contrary to what a Baroque garden might