The Russian violinist Evgeny Sviridov, winner of the MA Festival Bruges Competition in 2017, has chosen to devote his first recording to the sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini.
Evgeny Sviridov was born on February 17th, 1989 in St.-Petersburg. At the age of five he began playing the violin. In 1996 he entered the special musical school at the St.-Petersburg Conservatory at the class of Elena Zaytseva, and since November 2005 Evgeny Sviridov has been studying with Prof. Popov.
As heir to the Baroque tradition of the early eighteenth century, Giuseppe Tartini developed technical performance concepts much bolder than those of his predecessors, thus preparing the violin for the language of the Classical period. His treatise served as a model for Leopold Mozart and his reputation was still very much alive in the Romantic era, which continued to propagate the famous anecdote of his dream during which the Devil suggested to him how to perform reputedly impossible trills…
We have an opporunity to listen to five of these sonatas on this recording. Here is one of them:
