Castle Classics Pandolfi, Giovanni Antonio (Italian c1660-1669)

G A Pandolfi: Complete Violin Sonatas - Andrew Manze - violin; Richard Egarr - harpsichord

Label - Harmonia Mundi

Cat. No. - HMU907241

Including Violin Sonata Op.3/1; Violin Sonata Op.3/2; Violin Sonata Op.3/3; Violin Sonata Op.3/4; Violin Sonata Op.3/5; Violin Sonata Op.3/6; Violin Sonata Op.4/1; Violin Sonata Op.4/2; Violin Sonata Op.4/3; Violin Sonata Op.4/4; Violin Sonata Op.4/5; Violin Sonata Op.4/6

Gramophone Award Winning Recording

Gramophone - Gramophone Editor’s Choice - "It would seem almost as if Andrew Manze had acquired proprietorial rights over the violin sonatas of Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi. These are virtuoso performances of some quite extraordinary music. Much of the writing is characterized by virtuoso figurations which, especially in faster movements, might become a little wearisome in the hands of a lesser player. But Manze seems to sense this danger and averts it with panache and a highly developed sense of fantasy. Slow movements, on balance, are more interesting and there is an especially memorable one in La Clemente, the Fifth Sonata of Op. 3, whose aria-like character is pathos-laden. Manze plays it sensitively and the result is touching Harpsichordist Richard Egarr is a lively and an imaginative accompanist throughout. In short,an exhilarating recital of music whose exoticism, melancholy and wild, passionate outbursts resist both categorization and convenient definition. Uccellini, certainly, but also even Schmelzer and Biber seem at times conservative by comparison. Strongly recommended."
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