Locatelli: Concerti Grossi (Full Album)

Download on iTunes: For physical sales: Listen via Spotify: Composer: Pietro Antonio Locatelli Artists: Igor Ruhadze (violin), Ensemble Violine Capricciosi Virtuosity, showy improvisation and stratospherically high violin playing are the characteristics of Baroque composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli’s theatrical concerti grossi for soloists and ripieno. While concerti grossi from this time could usually be divided into two types, ‘da camera’ and ‘da chiesa’ – with the former containing more dance movements – Locatelli went down his own distinct path, creating a new model more like that of Torelli. His ripieno section was larger than the traditional accompanying group, and his slow movements contained drawn-out notes over which the first violinist or harpsichordist was free to improvise. Indeed, o