Tartini: Sonate Op. I - Evgeny Sviridov, Stanislav Gres, Davit Melkonyan
Quarterly Critics' Choice 1.2019 - German Record Critics' Award. With their many inimitable trills, their virtuosic passage-work and their endless double and triple stops, the violin sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini make huge technical demands of the soloist; but Evgeny Sviridov has the artistry to place all of these pyrotechnics at the service of highly sensitive, poetic expression. His violin tone captivates the listener with its singing quality and subtle nuances, his articulation is highly rhetorical, his phrases are broad, emphatic arcs. It is hard to imagine that anybody could make a better case for the late Baroque loner Tartini. (For the jury: Matthias Hengelbrock)