Veronika Smolikova

In the third part of her highly acclaimed anthology of virtuoso Austrian violin music, the baroque violinist Veronika Skuplik once again devotes herself to works from a valuable baroque manuscript that today belongs to the rich holdings of the British Library in London, in addition to sonatas by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. A remarkably high-quality Ciaccona from the pen of the composing Emperor Leopold I forms the framework for this once again immensely discoverable excursion into late 17th century Vienna.

The virtuoso, sometimes eccentric violin music of the Neapolitan-born and English-by-choice Nicola Matteis (ca. 1650 - ca. 1714) is the focus of the recording of the renowned baroque violinist Veronika Skuplik and the lutenist Andreas Arend with FRA BERNARDO. They trace the baroque, virtuoso gesture of the music and transform it into a kind of travelogue from Naples to London to Norfolk.