NEWS • 22 July 2026 • Source: Da Vinci Classics
Ignazio Albertini’s only surviving collection has received a rare complete recording from the Czech-German Ensemble Rýnský. Da Vinci Classics’ Sonatinae XII Violino Solo returns to music first published posthumously in 1692, revealing a violinist-composer whose career connected Italian virtuosity with the contrapuntal traditions of Central Europe.
Albertini worked in Vienna during the later seventeenth century, but the loss of most of his music has left his reputation resting on these twelve sonatas. Their survival makes the collection more than a historical curiosity: it offers a compact record of how styles travelled between courts and musicians, and how the violin’s solo language was developing before the high Baroque.
Vojtěch Jakl leads the recording on baroque violin, supported by an expanded and varied basso continuo. Ensemble Rýnský’s complete traversal gives each sonata its own profile while allowing the set’s wider design to emerge.
Issued both on CD and digitally, the album is accompanied by a booklet and related materials through Da Vinci’s digital release platform.