GIUSEPPE TARTINI (1692-1770)

• Sonata n. 13 in Si minore   

Andante

Allegro assai

Giga: allegro affettuoso

(Edis. ZANIBON); 7‘20“

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

• Sei Landler D374 per violino solo

(Ediz. HENLE); 2’40”

KAROL JOSEF LIPINSKY (1790-1861)

• Capriccio op. 29 n. 3

(Ediz. POLSKIE WYDAWNICTWO MUZYCZNE); 2’50”

FRITZ KREISLER (1875-1962)

• Recitativo e scherzo-capriccio op.6

(Ediz. SCHOTT); 4’

BRUNO BETTINELLI (1913, vivente)

• Monologo per violino solo

(Ediz. CURCI); 6’50”

BÈLA BARTÒK (1881-1945)

Sonata per violino solo

• Tempo di ciaccona
• Fuga
• Melodia 
• Presto

(Ediz. BOOSEY and HAWKES); 24’30”

STEREO

STRUMENTO (Instrument / Instrument / Instrument): 

Violino Vettori 1981

LUOGO DELLA REGISTRAZIONE (Aufnahmeort / Recording place / Lieu d'enregistrement): 

Livorno, Cappella di San Ranieri, 10/14 ottobre ‘83

REGISTRAZIONE (Aufnahme / Recording / Enregistrement): 

Studio R.G.C. Livorno

DIRETTORE DELLA PRODUZIONE (Produktion / Production / Directeur de production): 

Giulio Cesare Ricci

INGEGNERE DEL SUONO (sound engineer): 

Giulio Cesare Ricci

The program proposed in this edition might appear eclectic, heterogeneous, and selected on old-fashioned standards. But- not to mention the fact that this kind of edition is frequent in the United States and in the URSS - if the main end is to display the properties and the features of a modern instrument, like the violin that Carlo Vettori produced in 1981, it is obvious that the choice tends towards pieces of music which may well represent different period and schools.

This is the way Marco Fornaciari presents a repertory ranging from the early XVIII century to the present time. GIUSEPPE TARTINI (1692-1770) Istrian, sound theorist and harmony scholar, shows, in his «Sonata n. 13 in Si minore» (belonging to a group of 24, the autograph of which is preserved in Padova) a comparatively simple conception of style projected towards the scarcely perceptible virtuosity of the pure and graceful, eighteenth-century musical expression.

The six Ländler per violin solo D374 which FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) composed in 1816 are a little, nearly unknown jewel and have the tones and the cadenzas of the Walzer (which originated from the Ländler, a popular country dance) without the symphonicrefinements of other composers (like Strauss, for instance). 

Scarcely known, KAROL JOSEPH LIPINSKY (1790-1861), Polish violinist, eclectic composer and conductor, competed with Paganini without cutting a poor figure and composed a little collection of «Capricci» after the Italian style. The «Capriccio» n. 3, op. 29, is a rutilant cascade of notes in the purest virtuosistic styleof thelast century. 

The «Recitativo e Scherzo-Capriccio» op. 6 by FRITZ KREISLER (1875-1962) shows howthe late-Viennese melodic tradition has survived until the XX century.This piece is too renowned, and it is not necessary to speak diffusely about it.

Very interesting is the «Monologo per violino solo» by BRUNO BEITINELLI (b. 2913) master of more than a generation of musicians fromhis chair of composition in «Giuseppe Verdi» conservatory in Milan. Bettinelli, not influenced by schools or fashions, shows that is possible - retaining the ties with the Italian «cantabilità» to compose music enjoyable by a forge public

With his «Sonata per violino solo» dedicated to Y. Menhuin, BELA BARTOK, (1881-1945) almost reached the limits of the human possibilities of execution.The «Sonata per violino solo», a «sonata da chiesa» in 4 tempi, is one of the most difficult pieces written for violin.

MARCO FORNACIARI (1953) diplomated by the «L. Cherubini» in Florence, got the Konzertdiplom in Ginevra, under the guidance of Corrado Romano, achieving the «Premier prix avec distinction». He has been playing in concerts all over the world as soloist and as first violin of the «Solisti Veneti». The instrument that Marco Fornaciari used was built in 1981 by CARLO VETTORI, a Florentine lute-maker. In thirty years of activity (he began working in his father's workshop, Dario, an appreciated lute-maker himself) Carlo Vettori raised a great many successes.