L’Accademia della Rosa & Giulio Plotino – Tartini: Violin Concertos D80, 96 & 125, Violin Sonata “Devil’s Thrill” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:41 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Classical
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Musical anniversary celebrations have inevitably been curtailed in 2020, and overshadowed by Beethoven, but Giuseppe Tartini was renowned throughout Europe as the pre-eminent genius of the violin – not only as a performer but as a composer of works which demonstrated his extraordinary gifts, and as a teacher who welcomed students from across Europe to his home in the north-Italian city of Padova, where they learnt every sophistication in the art of violin playing; not only virtuoso trickery but the sustaining of a true legato like a great singer.
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Giulio Plotino, Clemens Hagen, Matteo Mela – Paganini: His Music, His Instruments (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:58 minutes | 961 MB | Genre: Classical
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This exceptional recording was made using three original instruments that belonged to Paganini himself: the powerful 1743 Guarneri del Gesù violin; a six-string guitar by Ory, Paris, dated 1797; and a magnificent 1736 Stradivari cello, property of the Nippon Music Foundation and entrusted to Clemens Hagen, cellist of the Hagen Quartet. The three instruments are played together for the first time on this release. It was Giulio Plotino who conceived this project and took upon himself the difficult task of reuniting the three instruments. Indeed, this unique recording would not have been possible without him.
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