Carmignola again with the Basel Chamber Orchestra performing Vivaldis Il Gran Mogul a concerto for violin (RV 431a) written in the late 1720s or early 1730s. It was the Indian part of a set of four national concertoes, La Francia (France), La Spagna (Spain) and LInghilterra (England) - the other three are all lost. It appeared in a Dutch booksellers sale catalogue of 1759 and was then lost until 2010, when it was rediscovered by Andrew Woolley in the papers of Lord Robert Kerr (?-1746), the son of William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian, now in the National Archives of Scotland. Kerr was a flautist himself and is thought to have collected it on a grand tour of Italy. Number RV 431a has been assigned to the concerto in Ryom Verzeichnis.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:44:58 +0000
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