NEW BAROQUE – SONATAS | Ada Witczyk, Simon Standage, violin • Dominika Maszczyńska, harpsichord

+ P&P

NEW BAROQUE – SONATAS is an album filled with brand new sonatas for baroque violin(s) and harpsichord by the winners of the 5th Růžičková Composition Competition (2024). Each sonata explores baroque instruments in lots of creative ways, their unique sonorities and distinctive gut string colours, and pushes the boundaries of what we would expect to hear from them.

Description

Released on all digital platforms (no physical release): 28 February 2025

NEW BAROQUE – SONATAS

Raphael Amadio FUSCO (b. 1984)
1–4. Sonata for Baroque Violin and Harpsichord (2024)

Salvatore PASSANTINO (b. 1992)
5. Ostination (2024) *

Andrew WILSON (b. 1960)
6. Vanbrugh Sonata: II. The Summer Folly (2024)

David Jason SNOW (b. 1954)
7–9. L’apothéose de Tati (2024) *

Fabricio Maximiliano GATTA (b. 1971)
10–12. Suite for Violin and Harpsichord, ‘Nos. 1, 2 and 3’ (2024)

Alexander UNSETH (b. 2002)
13–15. One of Seven (2024) *

Ada Witczyk, * Simon Standage violin
Dominika Maszczyńska harpsichord

All works are première recordings

Recorded at St Peter’s, Belsize Park, London, UK, 21—24 July 2024
Recorded, produced and mastered by Oscar Torres
24bit, 192kHz high resolution recording

Press Quotes

‘Plaudits again to Ada Witczyk and First Hand Records for such an artistically enterprising and musically engaging album.’ (PERFORMANCE: ٭٭٭٭٭ / RECORDING: ٭٭٭٭٭ BBC Music Magazine)

NEW BAROQUE – Ada Witczyk, violin