The famous British Library in London owes one of its musical treasures to a tennis player: A manuscript of violin music from around 1680 from Vienna with virtuoso sonatas by and from the circle of the devil's violinist Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (around 1623-1680). Veronika Skuplik, one of today's best baroque violinists, has worked out some of these musical stories with virtuosity and incomparable sensitivity. Without going with the zeitgeisty fashion of the overly lush continuo, she is accompanied here only by Jörg Jacobi on the historic organ of the Laurentius Church in Langwarden - with convincing results!
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