♪♫♪ ♪♫♫♪ Tartini Violin Concertos D70, 42, 109, 123, 54, 45, 115, 13, 125, 110 Violin Solos by Giovanni Guglielmo, Federico Guglielmo, and Carlo Lazari ♪♫♪ ♪♫♫♪ The greatest violinists before Paganini were Vivaldi, Tartini, Locatelli and Viotti. According to the liner notes, very few of his violin concertos were published during his lifetime and he wrote 135 violin concertos, about 200 sonatas for violin and continuo, and about 40 trio sonatas. The Dynamic label has made a tremendous effort spending the money to record and print these premiere recordings, but due to lack of support they have gone out of print and are currently selling for nearly sixty dollars. Would anyone care to invest some money and upload the rest of the series before they all get lost? I would also advise everyone to get the wonderful book "Tartini His Life and Times" by Lev Ginzburg while you still can as it is out of print and starting to become hard to find. ♪♫♪ ♪♫♫♪ Of all contemporary violinists that seek authenticity in sound and perform on instruments created during or close to the time frame the music that was written, there are three that stand out as favorites: Rachel Podger, Elizabeth Wallfisch, and Andrew Manze. Podger is my favorite but I love all three without question. As for recordings of more early violin music, I specifically recommend 'Perla Barocca' by Podger and a cd titled 'Early Italian Violin Sonatas' by Wallfisch who has been involved with the musical unit called Convivium that used to use the name The Locatelli Trio that made many wonderful contributions to the catalog of lesser heard baroque violin music. In order to raise awareness and gain a better understanding of the sequential order of early violin music, I have made a list of early violin composers and the year they were born, simply by doing searches of the names mentioned below and following the recorded repertoire of Podger, Manze and Wallfisch you will find there is much to discover. dowland 1563 piccinini 1566 monteverdi 1567 cima 1570 fontana 1571 praetorius 1571 frescobaldi 1583 schutz 1585 castello 1590 marini 1594 buonamente 1595 uccellini 1603 bertali 1605 cazzati 1616 rosenmuller 1619 schmelzer 1620? Isabella Leonarda 1620 locke 1621 legrenzi 1626 mealli 1630 vitali 1632 lully 1632 buxtehude 1637 myslivecek 1737 viviani 1638 stradella 1639 hacquart 1640 biber 1644 albertini 1644 bassani 1647 corelli 1653 pachelbel 1653 muffat 1653 westhoff 1656 marais 1656 torelli 1658 purcell 1659 scarlatti 1660 fux 1660 perti 1661 mascitti 1664 Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre 1665 rebel 1666 couperin 1668 pandolfi 1669 caldara 1670 matteis 1670 caldara 1670 albinoni 1671 bonporti 1672 venturini 1675 Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco 1675 vivaldi 1678 castrucci 1679 mossi 1680 telemann 1681 valentini 1681 mattheson 1681 rameau 1683 durante 1684 manfredini 1684 js bach 1685 handel 1685 b marcello 1686 porpora 1686 geminiani 1687 pisendel 1687 veracini 1690 tartini 1692 leo 1694 Jo