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Sho Maruyama

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Sonatas of wild abandon by Italian Baroque composersPlaying of delicacy and vitality that brings the fervour of the age back to lifeViolin music developed enormously during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the Italian composers who led the way in Europe, Corelli and Veracini were both outstanding violinists who left behind finely polished works for the instrument. Sho Maruyama, a Baroque violinist of the new generation, turns here to the wilder, more extravagant sonatas of these two composers, and with playing of delicacy and vitality he brings the fervour of the age back to life.- Ensemble LMCBorn in Yokohama. After the music course at Kanagawa Prefectural Iyasaka High School he graduated top of his class from the Kyoto City University of Arts, receiving the Kyoto Mayor’s Prize and the Kyoto Music Association Prize, and went on to complete the special course in early music at th