Vivaldi: Concerti Per Una Vita
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin/director), Le Consort
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
There is no doubt about the exceptional playing of both soloist and orchestra, directed by Langlois de Swarte himself – alternately exuberant , wayward, introspective and melancholic, they move...
Vivaldi: Concerti Per Una Vita
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin/director), Le Consort
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
There is no doubt about the exceptional playing of both soloist and orchestra, directed by Langlois de Swarte himself – alternately exuberant , wayward, introspective and melancholic, they move...
About
One must get past the cliché (‘Vivaldi composed the same concerto 500 times’) to understand the extent to which composer, instrument and genre form an indissoluble whole; and that is what Théotime Langlois de Swarte and the musicians of Le Consort have set out to do.
From his early youth in Venice to his last days in Vienna, the ‘red-haired priest’ pushed back technical and academic boundaries, constantly creating new narrative forms: the journey of a lifetime.
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A Lifetime of Vivaldi from Théotime Langlois de Swarte
A lively re-telling of Vivaldi's life through a selection of his violin concertos, from perhaps the most exciting young Baroque violinist around - including a number of world premiere recordings, and a gorgeous recent rediscovery.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week16th February 2024
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BBC Music MagazineMarch 2024Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
March 2024
There is no doubt about the exceptional playing of both soloist and orchestra, directed by Langlois de Swarte himself – alternately exuberant , wayward, introspective and melancholic, they move seamlessly.
March 2024
Langlois de Swarte is consistently colourful and capricious: ornamentation feels occasionally battered blue rather than soulful, and certain textbook Vivaldi passages could do with a simpler rhetorical stance. Perhaps it’s a cliché that Langlois de Swarte is doing well to contest.
16th February 2024
de Swarte’s flexible musicianship, and the thoughtful way in which he’s tailored both his forces and his playing to the evolving career and style of the composer, would make his Vivaldi performances compelling even without the added draw of all those fascinating premieres and rediscoveries. This is a real gem of an album and de Swarte continues to go from strength to strength.
