Vivaldi: Concerti Per ... - Les Musiciens Du Prince Monaco - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

This first collaboration between the naïve label and Les Musiciens du Prince –Monaco, the ensemble founded in 2016 by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Jean-Louis Grinda (then director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo), marks the 75th volume of the Vivaldi Edition. It explores the realm of the concertos per vari strumenti (“for various instruments”), more than 20 years after the first volume devoted to the genre which was conceived together with the Freiburger Barockorchester and Gottfried von der Goltz (Vol. 7, Concerti di Dresda, 2003, OP 30283). In this part of his vast catalogue, Vivaldi reveals a constant spirit of invention and an unfailing gift for the artful pairing of instrumental timbres. His extraordinary sensitivity to timbre and the expressive dimension he imparts to each instrumental color may be explained both by the various positions he held at the Ospedale della Pietà between 1703 and 1740—violin master, composer, etc.— where he worked with musicians capable of playing a wide variety of instruments, and by the connections he cultivated for about a decade, beginning in 1716, with the court chapel in Dresden, a veritable haven for some of the most outstanding virtuosi in early 18thcentury Europe

Label: Naive | Origin: Holland