Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo is an outstanding Italian violin virtuoso, best
known as a master of the works of Niccolò Paganini, but equally
accomplished across a wide variety of repertory for the instrument.
His playing is characterized by a taut, visceral tone and a
disciplined musical approach that avoids self-indulgence. Having
also established himself as a successful conductor, chamber
musician, and teacher, Accardo may be considered one of the most
accomplished and influential musicians of his generation. Accardo
was born in the northern Italian town of Turin, but as a teenager
he went to Naples to study violin at the Conservatorio di San
Pietro a Majella; it was there, at the age of 13, that he gave his
first performance of the devilish Caprices of Paganini, beginning a
lifelong association with that music. He later studied in Siena, at
the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. After winning the 1956 Geneva
Competition and the 1958 Paganini Competition in Genoa, Accardo
began a performing career that has kept him busy ever since, both
as a soloist with major orchestras and as a recitalist. His
repertory includes all of the violin music of Paganini, the solo
partitas of J.S. Bach, virtually every mainstream violin concerto
from the Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras, and a number of
contemporary works. Works composed specifically for Accardo include
Walter Piston's Fantasia for violin and orchestra, Iannis Xenakis'
Dikhthas, and Franco Donatoni's Argot. The most notable entries in
Accardo's extensive discography include his complete cycle of
Paganini concertos (the first of its kind), Max Bruch's complete
music for violin and orchestra, and the complete sonatas and
partitas of Bach. In 1968, he founded the Italian Chamber Orchestra
and became its first conductor. He later conducted the ensemble I
Musici, and in 1994 he was appointed conductor of the Orchestra del
Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He is a founding member of the Accardo
String Quartet and of the Walter Stauffer Academy, where he
routinely gives master classes, and also of the Cremona Academy for
string players. In 1987, he published a book, L'arte del violino. Similar artists
Albums
Classical - Released January 30, 2002 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released January 1, 2009 | Fonè Records
Chamber Music - Released September 16, 2016 | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Classical - Released January 30, 2002 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released September 9, 2016 | SWR Classic
Classical - Released September 24, 2007 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released June 10, 2010 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released January 30, 2002 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released January 1, 2007 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released January 1, 1994 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released January 1, 2002 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released September 16, 2016 | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Classical - Released April 12, 2004 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released December 27, 1997 | Fonè Records
Classical - Released September 1, 1975 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Classical - Released January 1, 1998 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Classical - Released January 1, 1996 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Violin Concertos - Released September 16, 2016 | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Classical - Released January 1, 1992 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
