Vivaldi: Concerto per violono

Description

This recording of Harmonie Universelle is an event for several reasons. First, the music: here are 12 completely unpublished concertos by the "Prete Rosso" that are not part of the Turin collection. The essential point, however, is the exceptional quality of these pages, as virtuosic—the difficulty of execution is formidable—as they are inventive in terms of sound. The violinists capable of meeting such a challenge can certainly be counted on the fingers of one hand, and Florian Deuter is one of them. Around him, the Ensemble Harmonie Universelle adopts the same standards of excellence. Suffice it to say that this recording should be a landmark. These pages, of exceptional quality, are as virtuosic as they are inventive in terms of sound. With their thousand masks, their constant humor, their lightning-fast contrasts in atmosphere, they are the most intimate reflection of a musical personality who, throughout his life, never ceased to believe, with the same fury and passion, in a limitless musical imagination.