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Giovanni Giornovich 'London Concertos'SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Giovanni Giornovich was one of the most colourful and popular violin virtuosos of his day. Apparently of Croatian descent, he was seemingly known by a different name in every country he toured (Ivan Jarnovic and Giovanni Giornovichi, among some thirty variants), deliberately making the most of his mysterious origins. More mysterious still is why these concertos full of wit, charm and character, and redolent of the

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In 1826 Beethoven was persuaded to publish an arrangement for piano duet of the Grosse Fuge

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are crisp and dynamic

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