Violinist Swan puts five centuries into one recital
Michael Swan isn’t just a violinist, he’s a time traveller.
For his annual recital, Swan is playing music over five centuries. The oldest is Partita no. 1 by Johann Paul Westhoff, part of his Six Partitas for Solo Violin, published in 1696. It wasn’t discovered until 1971.
The most recent is a mere 33 years old, Swan’s own composition Fantasy no. 1. He wrote it after finishing school and before joining the Saskatoon Symphony, inspired in part during a trip to Salzburg whe
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