This rather curious release from Japanese violinist Hideko Udagawa bills itself as containing three world premieres, but paradoxically it's a very old-fashioned kind of recording, with a "Baroque" program of the kind one might have heard around 1950. The bookends are a pair of virtuoso violin pieces that used to be heard often in recitals but aren't so common nowadays: the Chaconne in G minor for violin and orchestra of Tomaso (or Tommaso, but probably not Tomasso as he is spelled here) Vitali and the Sonata in G minor of ...
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This rather curious release from Japanese violinist Hideko Udagawa bills itself as containing three world premieres, but paradoxically it's a very old-fashioned kind of recording, with a "Baroque" program of the kind one might have heard around 1950. The bookends are a pair of virtuoso violin pieces that used to be heard often in recitals but aren't so common nowadays: the Chaconne in G minor for violin and orchestra of Tomaso (or Tommaso, but probably not Tomasso as he is spelled here) Vitali and the Sonata in G minor of Giuseppe Tartini known as "The Devil's Trill." The latter is played solo, with the justification that Tartini indicated in a letter that he had had the work published with a continuo part only for convention's sake, and that in a dream he had indeed imagined just a solo violin. The other premieres are a Prelude for solo violin by Vivaldi, apparently an arrangement by a Russian publisher (pretty thin stuff), and a Concerto for violin and orchestra in B flat major by Mannheim composer...
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