(2017) The violin’s delight - a garden of pleasure, 17th Century Virtuoso Violin Music Stephen Somary Michael Studer is not in

Michael Studer is not in bad company: one could never reproach Horowitz for having performed the Scherzi

Or perhaps even more because of its “Hinsz” temperament

The last movement is in sonata form

D’abord à Vienne

The author André Suarès summarized in a beautiful formula the paradox of Liszt transcriptions

(2017) The violin’s delight - a garden of pleasure, 17th Century Virtuoso Violin Music Stephen Somary Michael Studer is not inAbout this album Wohl gepflanzter Violinischer Lust Garten (Well Planted Violin Pleasure Garden) such was the title employed by Johann Jacob Walther for a second printing of the sonata like preludes for solo violin and basso continuo originally issued back in 1688. Published in Mainz in 1694, the re edition reaffirmed his reputation as a virtuoso master violinist with a further compositional calling card. Contrary to what a Baroque garden might