Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni, La tempesta di mare, Il gardellino & La notte (2017) [Hi-Res]

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01. Concerto No. 1 in F Major, Op. 10, RV 433 "La Tempesta di Mare ": I. Allegro
02. Concerto No. 1 in F Major, Op. 10, RV 433 "La Tempesta di Mare ": II. Largo
03. Concerto No. 1 in F Major, Op. 10, RV 433 "La Tempesta di Mare ": III. Presto
04. Concerto No. 3 in D Major, Op. 10, RV 428 "Il Gardellino ": I. Allegro
05. Concerto No. 3 in D Major, Op. 10, RV 428 "Il Gardellino ": II. Cantabile
06. Concerto No. 3 in D Major, Op. 10, RV 428 "Il Gardellino ": III. Allegro
07. Concerto No. 1 for Musette, Two Violins and Bass Continuo in C Major, Op. 8, RV 269 "La Primavera": I. Allegro
08. Concerto No. 1 for Musette, Two Violins and Bass Continuo in C Major, Op. 8, RV 269 "La Primavera": II. Adagio sempre piano
09. Concerto No. 1 for Musette, Two Violins and Bass Continuo in C Major, Op. 8, RV 269 "La Primavera": III. Pastorello Allegro
10. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'Estate": I. Allegro non molto
11. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'Estate": II. Adagio
12. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'Estate": III. Presto
13. Concerto No. 3 in F Major, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'Autunno": I. Allegro
14. Concerto No. 3 in F Major, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'Autunno": II. Largo
15. Concerto No. 3 in F Major, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'Autunno": III. Allegro
16. Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 8, RV 297 "L'Inverno": I. Allegro non molto
17. Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 8, RV 297 "L'Inverno": II. Largo
18. Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 8, RV 297 "L'Inverno": III. Allegro
19. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 10, RV 439 "La Notte": I. Largo
20. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 10, RV 439 "La Notte": II. Presto (Fantasmi)
21. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 10, RV 439 "La Notte": III. Largo
22. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 10, RV 439 "La Notte": IV. Presto
23. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 10, RV 439 "La Notte": V. Largo (Il sonno)
24. Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 10, RV 439 "La Notte": VI. Allegro

In the course of his recordings for Alpha, François Lazarevitch has explored the music of the Baroque and of oral and popular traditions. After Scottish and Irish music, airs de cour and Baroque suites and sonatas, he stops off in Vivaldi’s Italy. With him, of course, he has his cargo of rare instruments, including the musette de cour (a more sophisticated form of bagpipe) which he uses here to perform Spring from The Four Seasons, in an astonishing and very convincing version transcribed by the great virtuoso wind player of the reign of Louis XV, Nicolas Chédeville. Lazarevitch himself has arranged the other Seasons for the transverse flute, following a frequent eighteenth-century practice. A new angle on these evergreen masterpieces. As François Lazarevitch says: ‘I want to explore all the early sources in depth in order to challenge my performance practice of today and enrich it with an understanding of the style and the naturalness of period theory and phrasing. When I take tackle old Scottish and Irish music, it is with the aim of retracing this path.’ The rest of the programme is devoted to other favourite pieces by Vivaldi, this time originally written for flute.

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