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Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor
John Sharp, cello
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor

Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (October 2021)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor
John Sharp, cello

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (October 2021)

Holmès: La Nuit et L'Amour (October 2021)

Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he had dreamed that the Devil had appeared to him and had asked to be Tartini's servant. At the end of their lessons, Tartini had handed the devil his violin to test his skill, which the devil immediately began to play with such virtuosity that the composer felt his breath taken away. The complete story is told by Tartini himself in Lalande's Voyage d'un François en Italie:

One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill", but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.

Despite having said that this sonata was his favorite, Tartini later wrote that it was "so inferior to what I had heard, that if I could have subsisted on other means, I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever." 
While he claimed he composed the sonata in 1713, scholars think it was likely composed as late as the 1740s, due to its stylistic maturity. It was not published until 1798 or 1799, almost thirty years after the composer's death.

The sonata would become the basis for Cesare Pugni's 1849 ballet Le violon du diable, as well as Chopin's Prelude No. 27.

Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor "the Devil's Trill Sonata"

Arnold Schönberg - String Quartet No. 2

The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. Wikipedia

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Borodin String Quartet No. 2 (full)

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Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (October 2021)

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