Pavlo Beznosiuk - Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi; Johann Paul Westhoff: Suites (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 69:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Etcetera Records | KTC 1224 | Recorded: 1999
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 69:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Etcetera Records | KTC 1224 | Recorded: 1999
In what Et’cetera has described as Volume I, Pavlo Beznosiuk couples three of Westhoff’s suites for solo violin from 1696 with six items from Walther’s scherzos from 1676. His program opens with Walther’s Sonata VIII, offering a startling initial barrage of signature chords and double-stops, giving way to flurries of rapid notes and studded with brilliant staccatos, beside which the demands of Corelli’s solos about a generation later pale, and the Sonata closes with fireworks that make a greater cumulative effect than the works of Locatelli, often identified as the precursor of Paganini’s technical demands.