Federigo Fiorillo - Etude (or Caprice) no.22

James Woodrow - Violin
Home recording 19/09/2021
Caprice 1 • Federigo Fiorillo - E...
Caprice 8 • Federigo Fiorillo - Et...
Caprice 28 • Federigo Fiorillo - Et...
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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[@fepeerreview3150]

Remarkable piece of music! I must look into them.

[@thewildcellist]

Wow. Magical. What a piece - and your interpretation is fabulous. Thanks.

[@jameswoodrowviolin]

Thank you.

[@NorbyHofner]

awesome, can you do more of them?

[@jameswoodrowviolin]

1,8,22,28 so far.