Suites for Solo Violin
WESTHOFF Johann Paul von (1656-1705)
Plamena Nikitassova (Violine)
Label : Ricercar
Artikelnummer: RIC412
1 CD Spielzeit : 056:44
CHF 22.50
Westhoff was one of the most brilliant members of the significant school of violinists that flourished in seventeenth-century Dresden. This impressive virtuoso, who was even applauded by Louis XIV at Versailles, wrote the very first compositions for unaccompanied violin, which of course foreshadow the later masterpieces of JS Bach. The programme recorded here includes some suites from his collection [...], as well as the suite that was printed in the Mercure Galant of Paris in 1683, [...].