Tartini: Violin Concerto, D101

The ensemble L’Arte dell’Arco continue in their patient rediscovery of Tartini’s Violin Concertos. The eight concertos on our two CDs can all be assigned, according to Dounias, to the second period of Tartini’s activity. These are works of perfect balance, where the composer from Pirano d’Istria, now in his full stylistic and instrumental maturity, allows his fantasy to range freely in a consolidated formal context now enriched by nuances of the nascent style gallant and by the sapid contributions of Milanese symphonic writing. Thus Tartini achieves the miracle of living and working just a few miles from Venice without being particularly influenced by the style of the Venetian violinist-composers, and by Vivaldi especially.