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Lidarti - Violin Concertos

Violin Concertos No. 1 in C major; No. 2 in D minor; No. 3in A major; Quartetto (Sinfonia) in G major

Auser Musici Auser Musici/Francesco D’Orazio (violin)

Hyperion - CDA67685

Christian Joseph Lidarti (1730-95) is another new name to learn and not forget again. Re-discovered for these premiere recordings by a Pisan vocal and instrumental ensemble, this is another composer to scotch the "canon" which dominates concerts and recordings. Some 400 works of his can be found in the British Library and in a collection in Tuscany. These here are undated, but this eighteenth-century Italian composer bridges the baroque and the classical periods.

They are superbly realised by the consummate artistry and virtuosity of Francesco D’Orazio, reviewed in London by Musical Pointers teaching a Berio Sequenza and pictured here and (differently) in the booklet seen proudly holding his sweet-toned Guaneri violin.

An excellent first for Hyperion.

Peter Grahame Woolf