In stile italiano

The second concert of the spring series will take the audience back to the period when virtuoso violin playing was under development. In the company of outstanding performers, they will have an opportunity to hear very playful and often quite peculiar works full of highly diverse variation techniques and sometimes even an unusual tuning known as scordatura, which opened up the violin to previously unheard polyphonic possibilities. The art of violin playing traditionally originated in Italy, but the Italian style also developed north of the Alps and composers in those regions did not lag behind their Italian counterparts, even adding a new dimension to their compositions. The concert programme focuses on those composers working mainly in Central Europe.