Rachel Podger - Guardian AngelThe music on this recording demonstrates how Baroque composers in Germany, Italy, Austria and England responded to the challenges of writing for violin senza basso. Music for violin solo had a distinguished history before Bach and was widely cultivated by his contemporaries. Violinistic virtuosity was extraordinarily experimental in the late seventeenth century, with novelties in the tuning of the strings (scordatura), bowing techniques, chordal

Sunny still keeps a busy schedule and loves performing as much as he did as a teenager

Geminiani was already a leading figure in north Italian courts in his 20s

Four books of his lute music and two books of 'napolitane' were published in Venice between 1561 and 1579

a retelling of the Bible's prodigal son story from the other son

Dorival Caymmi

But maybe it is something that I can learn

Giuseppina Bridelli

earnest recitations

When he died in 1943

" a hard-hitting introduction to the newest 1017 member

I find the works on this album speak to and illuminate each other

Cash and all the other singers from Memphis whose music talked off the wall to a whole new generation