German Baroque Violin Concertos (Heinchen, Pisendel, Handel, Fasch) - Roman Totenberg, Vienna Chamber Orchestra

German Baroque Violin Concertos liner notes

Although there are some notable exceptions, most of the Baroque violin concertos current in the repertoire are Italian. This is to be expected. After all, the solo concerto is an Italian invention, cultivated by a great number of Italian composers who turned them out in great numbers. When a non-Italian composed a violin concerto during the first third of the eighteenth century he was consciously imitating an Italian style, perhaps affecting an Italianate manner, and certainly working formally within the limits of an Italian medium. The German composers represented on this disc have nevertheless contributed much of their own dialectics and talents to these pieces.