Sometimes considered in the same breath as Vivaldi, Tartini's output differs in being almost exclusively centred on the instrument at which he himself excelled: the violin. The six sonatas here (he wrote over forty, along with a similar number of violin concertos) face their performers with formidable technical challenges, not infrequently approaching the soundworlds of, say, Paganini to come the best part of a century later. Adrian Chandler and members of La Serenissima show no fear …