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Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli’s L'Arte del violino for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo took both violin technique and the solo concerto as a genre into a whole new realm. The twelve concertos included in the collection also played a part in forming the image of the violin virtuoso, reaching its full bloom with Paganini towards the end of the century. While the unusually high technical demands of the solo part are obvious to the listener from the start, the great surprise comes at the end of the first and third movements of each of the concertos.
Here Locatelli inserts Capriccios for the soloist alone of a difficulty previously unheard of, with a left hand technique making use of extensions, octaves, unprepared tenths, double and triple stopping, arpeggios and double trills. The writing also favours playing in extremely high positions: in Capriccio No. 22 (from the third movement of Concerto No. 11) rising broken thirds go as high as 17th position.
Ilya Gringolts, whose discography includes the better-known caprices by Paganini, has accepted Locatelli’s challenge, and here performs three of the L’Arte concertos. He does so with the support of the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, which he conducts from his gut-stringed violin by Ferdinando Gagliano, c. 1770. © BIS Records
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Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 3 No. 9 (Pietro Antonio Locatelli)
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11 (Pietro Antonio Locatelli)
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3 No. 12 "Il labirinto armonico" (Pietro Antonio Locatelli)
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Pietro Locatelli, Composer - Ilya Gringolts, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nora Brandenburg, Producer, SoundEngineer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Album review
Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli’s L'Arte del violino for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo took both violin technique and the solo concerto as a genre into a whole new realm. The twelve concertos included in the collection also played a part in forming the image of the violin virtuoso, reaching its full bloom with Paganini towards the end of the century. While the unusually high technical demands of the solo part are obvious to the listener from the start, the great surprise comes at the end of the first and third movements of each of the concertos.
Here Locatelli inserts Capriccios for the soloist alone of a difficulty previously unheard of, with a left hand technique making use of extensions, octaves, unprepared tenths, double and triple stopping, arpeggios and double trills. The writing also favours playing in extremely high positions: in Capriccio No. 22 (from the third movement of Concerto No. 11) rising broken thirds go as high as 17th position.
Ilya Gringolts, whose discography includes the better-known caprices by Paganini, has accepted Locatelli’s challenge, and here performs three of the L’Arte concertos. He does so with the support of the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, which he conducts from his gut-stringed violin by Ferdinando Gagliano, c. 1770. © BIS Records
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:29
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Ilya Gringolts Finnish Baroque Orchestra
- Composer: Pietro Antonio Locatelli
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical
2021 BIS 2021 BIS
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