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The Devil’s Trill, CKD 291
4 Stars - Classical CD of the Week
“One night I dreamt I had made a pact with the devil; he was my servant and anticipated my every wish…Imagine my astonishment when I heard a sonata so unusual and so beautiful…I was so overcome that I stopped breathing and awoke gasping…The piece I then wrote is without doubt my best, and I still call it The Devil’s Sonata.” Giuseppe Tartini’s words to the French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lalande explain why his most famous composition was suppressed during his lifetime. The G minor Sonata’s nickname derives from the notorious passage in its finale, entitled Dreams of the Author, in which the trill depicts diabolical laughter. This masterly work, and its Opus 1 companion in the same key, Didone abbandonata (Dido Abandoned), are the great baroque violinist/composer’s masterpieces, frequently recorded, but rarely with the gusto and technical address displayed by Rodolfo Richter, the Palladians’ “soloist”, but a primus inter pares of this outstanding baroque group (Susanne Heinrich, Silas Standage and William Carter). Carter is the author of the notes that put this music in context, indicating Tartini’s debt to Francesco Maria Veracini, whose A major Sonata, with another of Tartini’s Opus 1 set, completes this compelling programme.
(Hugh Canning – Sunday Times, 17th August 2008)
"One of the best chamber ensembles - baroque or otherwise - currently in business" - Gramophone
"...sparkling playing with the sense of uninhibited joy which only technical mastery and unrestrained joy can generate" - BBC Music Magazine
"Freshness, coupled with instrumental skill and stylistic fidelity" - Gramophone
"If you are not already aware of the high quality of the instrumental playing, stylish musicality, imaginative approach and oneness of the Palladian Ensemble, this disc provides as good an opportunity as any to find out what you have been missing." The Gramophone
".. . a stylistic freedom that leads to music that is truly authentic to the period - when thoughts of past and future never once entered the performance, and music lived only for the present." Classical Insite, Music Boulevard
"... the performances exude the frisson of a good-natured jam session between virtuosos who like to flirt as well as dazzle." Classic CD
"One of the best chamber ensembles currently in business" The Gramophone
"Performances that are refreshingly committed and which stray from old paths in stimulating and revealing ways. " The Gramophone
"This is sparkling playing with the sense of uninhibited joy which only technical mastery and unrestrained joy can generate." BBC Music Magazine
"It's hard to imagine more naturally expressive and pliable performances of this repertoire than appear on this recording. Truly stunning ensemble playing, and a genuine flair for the spirit of the dance make this a highly covetable disc." The Observer, Classical CD of the Week
"Youthful vitality prevails throughout this exciting recording, but never is the overall control and technical precision lost." Early Music
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Date : July 2008