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khiemtranThis is a CD that I'm somewhat surprised to find that I love, even though I do tend to like Arthur Grumiaux' recordings.
It's a two CD set and it's very much a period recording, only the "period" concerned is the middle half of the twentieth century. The sonatas are from a who's who of Baroque composers, minus the famous Germans. Instead we have Tartini, Corelli, Vitali, Veracini, Leclair, some guy called Vivaldi, and Nardini. The playing is very much in a romantic style and the accompaniment is by modern piano - these pieces as played would actually have been included as part of recitals with more modern Romantic pieces. They certainly wouldn't pass muster by historically informed performance practice, but they do have a charm about them that's hard to go past.
To hear Grumiaux spin out the Devil's Trill and make it seem both effortless and exhilerating at the same time is captivating, even on a mono recording. This is music that soothes both the brain and the heart. In a sense, it's not surprising that I like them since I also find Baroque arias soothing to listen to, again not something I would have expected until I came across some of the early Mozart arias.
It's a two CD set and it's very much a period recording, only the "period" concerned is the middle half of the twentieth century. The sonatas are from a who's who of Baroque composers, minus the famous Germans. Instead we have Tartini, Corelli, Vitali, Veracini, Leclair, some guy called Vivaldi, and Nardini. The playing is very much in a romantic style and the accompaniment is by modern piano - these pieces as played would actually have been included as part of recitals with more modern Romantic pieces. They certainly wouldn't pass muster by historically informed performance practice, but they do have a charm about them that's hard to go past.
To hear Grumiaux spin out the Devil's Trill and make it seem both effortless and exhilerating at the same time is captivating, even on a mono recording. This is music that soothes both the brain and the heart. In a sense, it's not surprising that I like them since I also find Baroque arias soothing to listen to, again not something I would have expected until I came across some of the early Mozart arias.
