CD, Locatelli (composer)
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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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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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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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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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If I had to characterise Chouchane Siranossian [in terms of the disc’s title], I would plump for angelic for the simple beauty of her playing, which belies the toughness of the music by being... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Zaïcik is the foremost beneficiary of the programme. Her clear mezzo-soprano voice, with its tonal purity, tightly controlled vibrato and fluent virtuosity serve Vivaldi’s motets Invicti Bellate... —
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8 CDs
HK$370.69 -
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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No chance of Locatelli's Op. 8 falling in with the rent-a-crowd Baroque fiddle sonata. Wallfisch invests every phrase with tingling, exuberant life. —
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2 CDs
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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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