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CD, Locatelli (composer)
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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... — More…
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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... — More…
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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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Special offer. Duello d'Archi A Venezia
Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
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... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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Les Ombres, under its co-founder and bass violist Margaux Blanchard, provide a lively and sympathetic rapport with the soloist — More…
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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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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... — More…
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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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Special offer. Locatelli - Sonatas Op. 4
VI Introduttioni Teatrali & VI Concerti
Elizabeth Wallfisch (directed from the violin)
The Raglan Baroque Players
The Raglan Baroque Players and Elizabeth Wallfisch are doing great service to the music of Locatelli. This excellent band … seem to revel in the fertile invention and sheer ebullience of the... — More…
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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)... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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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. — More…
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Fabio Biondi is an interesting soloist. He throws his bow against the string in the most fascinatingly unprecious way. Indeed, one of Biondi's strengths in live performance is that he doesn't... — More…
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