To publish this complete edition of Giuseppe Tartini’s Violin Concertos is not only a source of pride for a record label like Dynamic, which in its 36 years of activity has built a considerable catalogue of violin music. This edition is an artistic and historical document of indisputable musicological importance for anyone wishing to have a philologically reliable testimony of this aspect of 18th-century Italian instrumental music, valuable, therefore, for more than the mere dimension of listening.

To grasp the importance of this achievement we must first of all remember that only a very small number of these concertos can be found in modern, easily available editions, few of which, incidentally, are truly valid from the point of view of textual accuracy and respect of Tartini’s musical precepts.

This project was started, almost twenty years ago, by the founder of Dynamic, Pietro Mosetti Casaretto who, in 1996, recorded and published the first 3-CD box-set featuring the Concerti Op.1 performed by L’Arte dell’Arco, with Giovanni Guglielmo, Federico Guglielmo and Carlo Lazari as soloists.

They are the same soloists who also play in the 17th and last volume of the series published in 2013, evidence of this ensemble’s faithfulness to the project, and of their moral and artistic solidity, indispensable preconditions for any important musical achievement.