Tutta Sola

 
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Tutta Sola
Rachel Podger (violin)

[ Channel Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 28 October 2022

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On her new album Tutta Sola, violinist Rachel Podger plays solo repertoire from five European composers who all lived to celebrate New Year's Eve in 1700. It is a wonderful baroque programme of selected solo violin pieces, preludes, dances and fugal movements.

One person, at least with regards to the repertoire for Baroque violin, springs immediately to mind: Johann Sebastian Bach. But the German composer was not the only composer to experiment with 'senza basso' - music without accompanying bass - and neither was he the first.

In addition to Johann Sebastian Bach, this recording features solo violin music from Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, Nicola Matteis Jr., Johann Paul von Westhoff, and Giuseppe Tartini. Each of them were remarkable violinists in their own right, too.

Rachel Podger's previous solo album was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as "A breathtaking interpretation of Bach's Cello Suites. A spellbinding set that is arguably Podger's finest recorded achievement to date". It was included in The Guardian's Top 10 Best Classical CDs of the Year 2019.

Recording of the Year BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023

"the most striking aspects of Podger's playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century 'golden-agers'), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible use of dynamics and phrasing and her temporal suppleness...Podger plays every piece with an explorative sense of excited discovery, playfully pointing up the various correspondences with Bach's matchless works." BBC Music Five Stars

"Throughout, Podger is a perfect guide, her intonation unfailing and her musicianship and violinistic personality illuminating this intriguing music at every moment." Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Instrumental

"Podger never disappoints, but she has outdone herself here, and I heartily recommend this disc not just to her admirers, but also to those who have not discovered her yet. Even by herself, she plays like an orchestra of delight." Fanfare

Tracks:

Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata in D minor, BWV 565
Johann Sebastian Bach - Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Vilsmayr: Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera a Violin Solo

Matteis the Younger: Fantasia in C minor

Nogueira: Movements from Nogueira Manuscript

anon.: Movements from Klagenfurt Manuscript

Westhoff: Suite for Solo Violin No. 2 in A major

Corelli: Select Preludes and Voluntaries for the Violin: Prelude in D Major

Gasparini: Select Preludes and Voluntaries for the Violin: Prelude in C Major

Vitali, T: Select Preludes and Voluntaries for the Violin: Prelude in D Minor (I)

Lonati: Select Preludes and Voluntaries for the Violin: Prelude in D Minor (II)

Purcell: Select Preludes and Voluntaries for the Violin: Prelude in G Minor

Tartini: Sonata Piccole, Op. 26 No. 17 'Del Tasso'