Diapason d’Or
November 2021
Nouveauté

Presto Editor's Choice
November 2021

Victor Julien-Laferrière
Le Consort

Le Consort: Prelude (Improvisation)
Reali: Sinfonia XII, 'Folia'
Reali: Sinfonia II in D minor
Reali: Sinfonia IV in D major
Vivaldi: Trio Sonata, Op. 1 No. 1 for Two Violins & Continuo in G minor, RV 73
Reali: Sinfonia I in D minor
Vivaldi: Cello Sonata in E Minor, RV 40: Largo
Reali: Sinfonia X in A major
Vivaldi: Trio Sonata in F Major, RV 68: Andante
Reali: Sinfonia IX in D minor
Bach, J S: Concerto in D Major, BWV 972: Larghetto
Vivaldi: Trio Sonata, Op. 1 No. 12 for Two Violins & Continuo in D minor, RV 63 'La Follia'

Specchio veneziano or the Venetian mirror – this programme compares and contrasts two composers from the city of the Doges: on the one hand the celebrated Vivaldi, on the other a virtual unknown, Giovanni Battista Reali, who was born there in 1681, three years after Vivaldi, and died in 1751, ten years after his illustrious colleague. A violinist himself, he composed trio sonatas, including a very spectacular Folia, which Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Sophie de Bardonnèche, Hanna Salzenstein and Justin Taylor juxtapose with Vivaldi’s Folia, alongside other highly virtuosic pieces, many of them complete rediscoveries, since half of this programme has never been recorded before.