Eva Saladin - Violin Sonatas Op. 3 & 4We are proud to release the first disc of Baroque violinist Eva Saladin on Challenge Classics. For her debut on our label, Eva has chosen the scantly known sonatas by Pandolfi Mealli, an apparently marginal figure in the richest violin landscape of the 17th Century However Pandolfi Mealli was indeed a uique composer, the only one who was able to combine the Italian school of the first half of the century (Castello, Marini) with the later Austrian

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This selection of works by court organists Froberger Keril and Poglietti - as well as other greats of the era - are performed on the high Baroque 1743 Boss arts at Muri for maximum fidelity to sound

The accompanying liner notes (here translated for the first time) include introductions by Takara

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