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JUDITH ALLER, Violinist
with Merrill Nixon at the Piano

'Ms. Aller begins out of numerical order with the last of those in Opus 5, perhaps because it is the most familiar of all Corelli's works, best known as "La Folia" -- folia: a form popular in the Baroque as a setting for songs, dances, and variations. And indeed variations are the order of the day here, particularly in this, the fiendishly difficult Leoppld Auer arrangement of the piece. The great Russian teacher has added variations and a cadenza of his own in the Romantic style to Corelli's. These, in particular, Ms. Aller performs with a certain lightening flash. This is -- again, to my knowledge -- the first recording of the Auer arrangement of the "Folia con Variazione."

Judith Aller plays the Kreisler variations with grace and, in the last of the three, real fire.'

Bruce Alexander (from linear notes of ARCHANGEL! CD available on Amazon)

Producer Judith Aller
Engineered by Terry Becker
Cover painting Joe Garnett

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