IL VIOLINO SOLO

This album brings together pieces for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach (Sonatas and Partitas), Niccolò Paganini (Caprices) and Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (The Last Rose of Summer).  

Mystical, acrobatic or poetic, they offer a glimpse of the classical repertoire for solo violin...

FOLK

This album is an opportunity to pay tribute to the folk music, dances and songs that inspire so much of the violin repertoire. Between the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, a number of composers were able to convey emotionally-charged impressions through their music, stemming from their travels and encounters with certain musical traditions, traditional melodies, rhythms and particular harmonies. The violin is the folk instrument par excellence, the instrument of travel and wandering. It is at once universal, popular and nomadic, and doesn't hesitate to put itself on stage like an actor, expressing human feelings in turn...