Federigo Fiorillo - Etude (or Caprice) no.1

James Woodrow - Violin
Home recording 02/08/2020

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Federigo Fiorillo was born in Germany, despite the Italian name from his Neapolitan father, and travelled widely throughout Europe as a violinist, violist and mandolin player. He performed in the Paris Concerts Spirituel and also ventured to London playing viola in a quartet with Salomon (of Haydn London symphony fame). Although his Etude-Caprices have not had the exposure of Kreutzer and Rode, they represent a valuable source of violin teaching material of the late 18th century.

For this recording I played off an early edition of the Fiorillo etudes. The edition has fewer prescriptive articulation and bowing markings compared to the 20th century editions often edited by famous teachers. I felt this gave me more freedom towards the end musical result.

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