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The Great Violins Vol.4: Girolamo Amati, 1629 (Vilsmayr - 6 Partitas)

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Label: Divine Art - Athene

Cat No: ATH23210

Barcode: 0809730321023

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 12th March 2021

Works

Vilsmayr, Johann Joseph

Partitas (6) for solo violin

Artists

Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)

Works

Vilsmayr, Johann Joseph

Partitas (6) for solo violin

Artists

Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)

About

As well as being internationally recognised as a leading interpreter of music new and old, Peter Sheppard Skærved is the only violinist to have performed on the personal violins of Viotti, Paganini, Joachim, Kreisler and Ole Bull. In this new series, he plays music on these and many more instruments, many of which only he has access to.

Probably the best known work of J.J. Vilsmaÿr, his set of Six Partitas (or partias) of 1715 are perfect and relatively early examples of the baroque dance suite, and have found more popularity than many other contemporary works for the solo violin.

Peter plays a superb instrument labelled ‘Amati Brothers’ but in fact made by Girolamo (his brother had died by 1610) with the help of his son and successor Niccolò; it was probably one of the last violins on which Girolamo worked as he died in 1630. 1629 was the year in which the Great Plague swept through Italy; Nicolò found himself a lucky survivor and inheritor of the great Amati tradition.

The spectacular instrument has a spruce front and single-piece maple back, with scroll and ribs in the early Cremona fashion. Skærved says that its extraordinary qualities (he has played it since 2013) have profoundly influenced his love for the violin and his understanding of what it can do. The violin is held in the collection of the Royal Academy of Music in London.