Handel / Fisher,Philip Edward Keyboard Suites 2 CD

The composer and violinist Henri Vieuxtemps, (1820-1881) impressed Schumann so much that upon hearing the fourteen-year-old violinist, Schumann wrote that Vieuxtemps "holds us in a kind of magic circle that encloses us ..." As one of a long line of master nineteenth- century violinist-composers, a line that stretches from Viotti, Rode, B?riot, and Paganini in the early years of the century to Wieniawski, Kreisler and Ysaáe at the end, Vieuxtemps was a towering figure among these violinist- composers, and the first to use the full romantic orchestral palette in the composition of his works. Featuring Reto Kuppel on violin.

1. Pr?lude 2. Allemande 3. Courante 4. Air and Doubles ('The Harmonious Blacksmith') 5. Pr?lude 6. Largo 7. Allegro 8. Gigue: Presto 9. Ouverture 10. Andante 11. Allegro 12. Sarabande 13. Gigue 14. Passacaille 15. Pr?lude 16. Allegro 17. Allemande 18. Courante 19. Gigue