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Reviewer: Raymond
Tuttle
In the last issue, I reviewed
a disc by Chiara Banchini on which she sampled Tartini’s sonatas for solo
violin. In some ways, these were experimental works. Tartini was interested
in difference tones—tones that are produced when two other tones are played
at the same time, and these sonatas explored difference tones through the
abundant use of multi-stopping. The two sonate piccole on this new disc
correspond to the sonatas for solo violin previously reviewed, while the
four opus 1 Sonatas, with continuo, come from earlier in Tartini’s career.
Violinist Evgeny Sviridov has elected to perform the Sonata Piccola No. 15
with an ad libitum cello providing harmonic support, although he performs
No. 17 all by himself.
The occasion behind this disc
is Sviridov’s victory in the International Competition Musica Antiqua Bruges
in 2017. (He also won the International Bach Competition in Leipzig in
2010.) He is a stylish performer, with an attractive sound, and he is
attentive to the challenges that Tartini’s music poses for violinists three
centuries after these sonatas were composed. His tone is fuller and richer
than one often hears in this music. In the Sonata Piccola No. 17, for
example, he brings a dash and an allure to the music that Banchini cannot
quite match. Ricercar’s accompanying material does not identify the
provenance of the violin that Sviridov is playing, but it, like the
violinist himself, suits the music’s temperament. The recording venue was a
church, and its resonance complements the more harmonically sophisticated
sonate piccole particularly well. Comrades Gres and Melkonyan are
like-minded, similarly imaginative, and also more than capable. The three musicians let their hair down in the three-movement Sonata Pastorale, which closes the program. This sonata calls for a scordatura violin (strings tuned to A, E, A, E) to facilitate the production of drone effects, which come to the fore in the second and third movements. This is country music in a classical style, and most enjoyable. Sviridov has made several recordings already (music by Bach and Vivaldi), so one cannot call him a promising newcomer. He was new to me, however, and I am very impressed with his full-bodied but not anachronistic playing. I will be on the lookout for new releases from this musician. | ||||
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