Vivaldi: Violin Concertos (Op. 11 & 12)

Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play and more): Physical purchase: Artist: L’Arte dell’Arco , Federico Guglielmo (solo violin & concertmaster ), Pier Luigi Fabretti (oboe) With this new release, L’Arte dell’Arco complete their survey of the concertos and sonatas Opp. 1-12 which spread the fame of Antonio Vivaldi across Europe thanks to their publication by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam. These final two sets were published in 1729, 18 years after the L’estro armonico collection Op.2 had created a sensation with their unprecedented brilliance of solo writing, rhythmic vivacity and originality of disposition between solo and accompaniment. Federico Guglielmo contributes a scholarly note to the booklet, in which study of the manuscripts have uncovered new contexts to these concertos. Although it is unce