12 Concerti Di Parigi

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Vivaldi's work is of extraordinary abundance, and from "his fury of prodigious composition" resulted a collection of 12 concertos, preserved in Paris ever since, and true jewels of Vivaldian music! But for whom were they composed? The French Ambassador in Venice, Jacques-Vincent Languet, who made numerous commissions to Vivaldi in the 1720s? Perhaps to offer a magnificent gift to a passing French music lover… Or François-Étienne, Duke of Lorraine and Bar? A true music lover and musician, he who would become Emperor Francis I of Austria in 1745, granted his protection to Vivaldi early on, who presented himself in 1731 as "maestro di cappella di S.A.R. il Serenissimo Sig. Duca di Lorena." The Concertos of Paris may have thus passed through the Court of Lunéville, which was so musically inclined? The mystery is indeed there, but these works influenced Parisian musical life. The fiery violin of Stefan Plewniak brings back all their splendor in the virtuosic interpretation of the Orchestre de l'Opera Royal de Versailles!