Concertos, Violin Concertos, Locatelli (composer)
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Sparks (and rosin) really do fly on this high-octane album of violin concertos by what Siranossian calls the 'four musketeers' of Venice - Veracini, Locatelli, Tartini and Vivaldi. It's perhaps... —
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Record Review, 27th May 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto Recording of the Year
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Vivaldi, Leclair, Locatelli: Violin Concertos
RecommendedThéotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Les Ombres
Les Ombres, under its co-founder and bass violist Margaux Blanchard, provide a lively and sympathetic rapport with the soloist —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Locatelli: Il Virtuoso, Il Poeta
Violin Concertos & Concerti Grossi
Isabelle Faust (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Faust brilliantly masters the high-wire acrobatics of Locatelli’s writing, which includes almost ear-piercingly high playing positions, extreme left-hand extensions, double stops and all manner... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Special offer. Vivaldi Four Seasons & Locatelli Harmonic Labyrinth
Chloe Chua (violin), Singapore Symphony Orchestra
There’s a palpable energy in this detailed live recording, Chua’s album debut. The Vivaldi’s familiar characteristics dazzle in a performance that is way beyond the teenager’s 16 years, and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Ensemble of the Year
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They are performed with apposite aplomb and necessary bravura by Ilya Gringolts who also directs the Finnish Baroque Orchestra...While to my ears the music lacks the invention and poetic allure... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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He breezes through the salvo of technical challenges…Yet he also brings a refined musicality and a sense of period style to these concertos, so alongside the fireworks there’s playing of exquisite... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Concerto Choice
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Alessandrini and his crack players marry elegance with unfailing rhythmic zest, always attentive to textural clarity and the shaping of bass lines. The continuo (harpsichord and/or theorbo)... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690–1740
Volume Three: The Golden Age
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
…a well-chosen programme played with fervour and infectious esprit… —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Pyrotechnia: Fire & Fury from 18th-Century Italy
RecommendedBojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
Čičić scarcely needs to prove his credentials through the medium of the virtuosic solo. The recording, instead, traces the impact of the capriccio-cadenza on the concerto form, and its evolution... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th October 2021
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