(2017) The violin’s delight - a garden of pleasure, 17th Century Virtuoso Violin Music Stephen Somary September 2023

September 2023

Associazione Scarlatti in Naples

Michael Studer is not in bad company: one could never reproach Horowitz for having performed the Scherzi

but finding here as part of a whole renewed expressivity

but also among Bach's most brilliant keyboard compositions

(2017) The violin’s delight - a garden of pleasure, 17th Century Virtuoso Violin Music Stephen Somary September 2023About this album Wohl gepflanzter Violinischer Lust Garten (Well Planted Violin Pleasure Garden) such was the title employed by Johann Jacob Walther for a second printing of the sonata like preludes for solo violin and basso continuo originally issued back in 1688. Published in Mainz in 1694, the re edition reaffirmed his reputation as a virtuoso master violinist with a further compositional calling card. Contrary to what a Baroque garden might