Evgeny Sviridov & Ludus Instrumentalis – Benda: Sonatas & Capriccios (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Evgeny Sviridov & Ludus Instrumentalis – Benda: Sonatas & Capriccios (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:22 minutes | 693 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CPO

In the summer of 2010, a Russian violinist by the name of Evgeny Sviridov participated in the Leipzig Bach Competition. And he went home as a winner – much to the surprise of his teacher in St. Petersburg, who knew nothing about it. One year later, the young man’s debut CD featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber was released, and critics were speechless, for he played “so refreshingly, full of life and breath, as if he had just written this music himself.” His latest recording for cpo is dedicated to the Bohemian composer and violinist Franz Benda who came from a very modest background to make a career at the court of Frederick II of Prussia. And we realise once again that Sviridov does not like old, dusty ideas. Already after a few bars, the leader of Concerto Köln lets us know that music is indeed an overwhelming narrative of sound, thus saving us from reading many clever books on the subject…

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Ludus Instrumentalis & Evgeny Sviridov – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Complete Trio Sonatas (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ludus Instrumentalis & Evgeny Sviridov – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Complete Trio Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:55 minutes | 808 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

If there is one student of Johann Sebastian Bach whom posterity has definitely not forgotten, it is Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. However, he owes this destiny to his position as harpsichordist to Count Keyserling: during the latter’s bouts of insomnia, it was Goldberg’s task to play for him the famous variations that he had commissioned from the Leipzig Kantor. This has probably long obscured the fact that Goldberg was also an excellent composer. Aside from his only two surviving cantatas (already recorded by Ricercar), his output is essentially instrumental, and the genre of the trio sonata occupies an appreciable place within it. Here are his complete trio sonatas, along with a sonata in C major at one time attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1037).

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Evgeny Sviridov and Millenium Orchestra – Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concertos (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Evgeny Sviridov and Millenium Orchestra – Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:11 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

After devoting an album to sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini, for this anniversary year of the illustrious Paduan virtuoso, Evgeny Sviridov offers us a recording of violin concertos. This is his first collaboration with Millenium Orchestra, the ensemble founded by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon in the framework of CAVEMA in Namur. Most of the concertos selected come from manuscript copies made in eighteenth century Germany, where Tartinis reputation was very high. Evgeny Sviridov has found in these scores cadenzas and ornaments which are very probably in the hand of Johann Georg Pisendel, the great virtuoso violinist of the Dresden court, a friend (and interpreter) of Johann Sebastian Bach! Following a practice that was becoming increasingly common in Germany at that time, one of the concertos has two horn parts in addition to the strings. Of the 130 or so surviving violin concertos, Evgeny Sviridov has selected five.

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Evgeny Sviridov, Davit Melkonyan & Stanislav Gres – Tartini: Sonate, Op. I (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Evgeny Sviridov, Davit Melkonyan & Stanislav Gres – Tartini: Sonate, Op. I (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:38 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

The Russian violinist Evgeny Sviridov, winner of the MA Festival Bruges Competition in 2017, has chosen to devote his first recording to the sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini. As heir to the Baroque tradition of the early eighteenth century, Tartini developed technical concepts much bolder than those of his predecessors, thus preparing the violin for the language of the Classical period. His treatise served as a model for Leopold Mozart and his reputation was still very much alive in the Romantic era, which continued to propagate the famous anecdote of his dream during which the Devil suggested to him how to perform reputedly impossible trills…

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