The “Devil’s Trill” Sonata is the most famous of the violin sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini (1692 1770). In the new scholarly-critical edition, it holds many a surprise in store. For the first time, all available contemporary sources have been consulted to produce an edition closely approximating Tartini’s lost autograph.

The solo part offers several ossia passages and alternative articulation marks, and the score have been given an eminently playable realization of the continuo part offering amp...