Pandolfi: Complete Violin Sonatas / Manze, Egarr

Andrew Manze, violin & Richard Eggar, harpsichord

Pandolfi: Complete Violin Sonatas

Enigmatic Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli is known to us only through a single mention in the annals of the Innsbruck court and two slender volumes of virtuoso violin sonatas published in 1660, each (with one exception) dedicated to a fellow court musician. Andrew Manze - 'who sets new standards with every piece of music he touches' (USA Today)- discovers an ideal vehicle for his dazzling musicianship. Andrew Manze plays a violin by the school of Amati, 1690, bow by Gerhard Landwehr, Heemstede, 1986. Richard Egarr plays a harpsichord by John Phillips, 1993, after a 16th-century Florentine model.