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Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Harmonic Inspiration: Vivaldi's "L'Estro Armonico"

Harmonic Inspiration: Vivaldi's "L'Estro Armonico"

15/01/2011

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Harmonic Inspiration: Vivaldi's "L'Estro Armonico"

Lucie Skeaping explores Vivaldi's collection of violin concertos L'Estro Armonico, Op 3.

Harmonic Inspiration: Lucie Skeaping explores Vivaldi's ground-breaking set of concertos for one, two or four violins entitled L'Estro Armonico.

Lucie Skeaping looks at Vivaldi's groundbreaking Op.3 set of concertos for one, two or four violins entitled "L'Estro Armonico", which were published 300 years ago.

Vivaldi had them published in Amsterdam, which meant they were readily available throughout northern Europe. The 8 partbooks even landed on the desk of JS Bach, who found them so inspirational he set about making transcriptions of some of them for keyboard instruments.

We'll hear some of Vivaldi's concertos in recordings by The English Concert and I Musici, as well as one of Bach's transcriptions - the Concerto for 4 Harpsichords in a performance by Bach Collegium Stuttgart conducted by Helmuth Rilling.

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