Giovanni Guglielmo (violin)
L’Arte dell’Arco (on original instruments)
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D106
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D122
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D24
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D49
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D5
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D64
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D79
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D9
- Tartini: Violin Concerto, D97
Among the great Italian 18th-century soloist-composers, Giuseppe Tartini (Pirano d’Istria , 1692 - Padova, 1770) is the one who most explicitly focussed his production on his own chosen instrument, the violin, neglecting, or treating as secondary, genres that in his day were very popular. 135 Violin Concertos and about 200 Sonatas for violin and basso continuo form, in fact, the main bulk of his output.
The ensemble L’Arte dell’Arco, whose previous recordings have been favourably received by the critics and the public, measure themselves once again with beautiful and difficult concertos never recorded before, written by Tartini in the central years of his creative activity.