Viotti: Complete Violin Concertos Volume 9

After a long wait (due to the complex musicological work on the orchestral scores) Dynamic publishes volume nine of the Violin concertos by Giovanni Battista Viotti, one of the greatest violin-composers of the history of music. This CD - the last but one in this very successful series - includes the famous Concerto No. 22 long awaited by the lovers of violin music, which can be considered the forefather of many 19th-century violin concertos, in particular those by Nicolò Paganini, who, as a young violinist, frequently performed Viotti’s works.

The CD also features the Concerto No. 24 in B minor and the Concerto No. 28 in A minor (this in world première recording) in which the Piedmontese composer remains substantially faithful to his tested stylistic canons, never going beyond the boundaries of very measured elegance, and of lyricism that hardly ever touches on pathos.