J.H. Roman: Assaggi for solo violin Alison Luthmers

• Johan Helmich Roman (1694 - 1758): Assaggio in E Minor, BeRI 312:
• 1 Roman: Assaggio in E Minor, BeRI 312: I. 05:57
• 2 Roman: Assaggio in E Minor, BeRI 312: II. 02:50
• 3 Roman: Assaggio in E Minor, BeRI 312: III. 05:32
• 4 Roman: Assaggio in E Minor, BeRI 312: IV. 01:42
• 5 Roman: Assaggio in E Minor, BeRI 312: V. 05:12
• Assaggio in A Major, BeRI 301:
• 6 Roman: Assaggio in A Major, BeRI 301: I. 03:51
• 7 Roman: Assaggio in A Major, BeRI 301: II. 04:38
• 8 Roman: Assaggio in A Major, BeRI 301: III. 06:38
• 9 Roman: Assaggio in A Major, BeRI 301: IV. 01:27
• Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 314:
• 10 Roman: Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 314: I. 03:18
• 11 Roman: Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 314: II. Allegro 03:01
• 12 Roman: Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 314: III. 03:22
• 13 Roman: Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 314: IV. Non troppo Allegro 02:09
• Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 320:
• 14 Roman: Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 320: I. 03:56
• 15 Roman: Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 320: II. 05:39
• 16 Roman: Assaggio in G Minor, BeRI 320: III. 01:40
• Total Runtime 01:00:52

Info for J.H. Roman: Assaggi for solo violin

The father of Swedish music’ and ‘the Swedish Handel’ are two descriptions of Johan Helmich Roman (1694 – 1758), one of Sweden’s most important composers. Roman composed around twenty Assaggi (Assaggio has been translated as ‘sample’, ‘essay’, ‘study’ or ‘experiment’) and they range from multi-movement works to single movements, with some surviving as just fragments. They are beautifully written for the violin and reveal a startling musical imagination at work.

Increasingly in demand as leader and soloist with early music ensembles throughout Europe, Canadian-American Baroque violinist Alison Luthmers performs with Concerto Copenhagen, Camerata Øresund, Höör Barock, Göteborg Baroque, Eslövs Kammarorkester and Nivalis Barokk.

Alison Luthmers,violin

Alison Luthmers
Canadian-American Baroque violinist Alison Luthmers enjoys a thriving career as leader, soloist and chamber musician, performing with Concerto Copenhagen, Camerata Øresund, Barokksolistene, Arte dei Suonatori, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Nivalis Barokk, Göteborg Baroque, Eslövs Kammarorkester, Nivalis Barokk and HemiDemiSemi Consort. She has recorded for Rubicon, Da Capo, Channel Classics, Berlin Classics, Ramée, Naxos and ECM. She has been leader of the Ensemble in Residence at Trigonale Festival several times, and has appeared at many other major early music festivals in Europe and the United States. Her first solo recording of the Swedish Baroque composer Johan Helmich Roman’s Assaggi for Solo Violin will be released by Rubicon Classics in April 2025.

Alison Luthmers is a founding member of the Bellevue String Quartet, Scandinavia’s only full-time period instrument quartet, which engages audiences through their unique, conceptual programs and intimate concert environment. A passion for creative programming also led to BookJam, where as artistic director Luthmers has organized a series of informal chamber music concerts at a bookstore in Malmö, Sweden.

As a two-time recipient of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, Alison Luthmers studied the connection between folk music, early music and dance in Scandinavia. She studied modern violin with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, and Baroque violin with Peter Spissky and Arek Goliński in Copenhagen.

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