"With the precision and zestiness necessary to make the music of Vivaldi and his Italian contemporaries sizzle" The New York Times Masters of the Baroque Violin Music | Italy Eighteenth century Italy was the birthplace of the modern violin and home to the instrument’s greatest makers, performers and composers of the day. In this exceptional recital, Fabio Biondi, the dazzling Italian virtuoso renowned for his interpretations of Italian Baroque repertoire, celebrates a golden age. His programme features music by six of the era’s most active and important violinist-composers including the hugely influential Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi of The Four Seasons fame, and the man described by later generations as “the Paganini of his time”, Pietro Locatelli. PROGRAMME Corelli: Violin Sonata No 9 in A, Op 5 Vivaldi: Sonata in B-flat, RV 34 (from the Manoscritto di Dresda) Geminiani: Sonata No 8 in D minor, Op 4 Tartini: Sonata No 10 in G minor, Op 1, Didone abbandonata Veracini: Ciaccona Locatelli: Sonata No 12 in D minor, Op 6