(2002) Fontana: Sonate a uno, due e tre Rodion Shchedrin The latter

The latter

Buxtehude was familiar with the Rückpositiv of the Totentanz organ at the Marienkirche in Lübeck

his first recording

the Overture in C Minor for string quintet which the budding composer wrote in 1811 at the age of 14

Mozart or Schubert

(2002) Fontana: Sonate a uno, due e tre Rodion Shchedrin The latterVery little is known about the life of Giovanni Battista Fontana. Born between 1580 and 1589, his name appears in the dedication of Cesare Gussagos Sonate a a quattro, sei, et otto, in which he is mentioned as a violinist with as much fame in Venice as Orpheus had in Thebes. The second sonata in this collection is even entitled La Fontana. In the dedication of his own posthumous collection he is described as one of the most singular violin virtuosos