Federigo Fiorillo - Etude (or Caprice) no.8

James Woodrow - Violin
Home recording 07/07/2020
Caprice 1 • Federigo Fiorillo - E...
Caprice 22 • 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. This etude explores the messa di voce (shown by the triangles).
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Amazed at the views in the last few days. Thanks for listening.

[@classic014]

probably cause it’s one of the TMEA all-state etudes thank u for this 🙏🙏

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Wonderful .this is going to be a great help to young studiers....

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Thank you!

[@classic014]

After repeat 1:51

[@nocturnallsnake4228]

This got a wonderful mood!

[@martinweir2027]

Beautifully played. Just downloaded this set of Études on IMSLP and will begin working on them. Thanks for the recording.

[@jameswoodrowviolin]

It's a visually beautiful edition. Thanks for listening.

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Thank you!

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Thanks for listening!

[@NorbyHofner]

what score is this? looks like the original....

[@jameswoodrowviolin]

Hello. Not the original composer manuscript, but an early edition of the Etudes published by Johann Andre at the end of the 18th Century.

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Very pretty stuff. Thank you!