Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violon – Le Consort

Far from being a musician locked in his ivory tower, Bach greedily seized the works of his contemporaries. He copied with his hand scores of his elder Vivaldi but also of other Italian masters such as the great Corelli.

Indeed, the whole of Europe admired and imitated the Roman, like Francesco Geminiani, an immense violin virtuoso who beautifully adapted the Sonata "La Folia" of his revered model. Bach did the same for the music of his friend Telemann, probably performing them at the head of the Collegium Musicum which he took the direction in 1729, six years after his arrival in Leipzig. He began to develop the genre of the concerto for soloist (for the harpsichord as for the violin), an exercise of virtuosity that the eighteenth century loved more and more, but with his own genius, namely an art of counterpoint which was for him a second nature.

It is this boiling universe that Le Consort, with Théotime Langlois de Swarte on the solo violin, strives to resurrect, in pages as sparkling technically as exciting in their writing.

Programme:

Johann Sebastian Bach

Concerto in A minor BWV 1041

Concerto in E major BWV 1042

Largo BWV 1056

Antonio Vivaldi

Concerto RV 356

Concerto RV 23

Georg Philipp Telemann

Concerto TWV 51 A1

Francesco Geminiani

Folia