LES ARTS FLORISSANTS    THÉOTIME LANGLOIS DE SWARTE, violin

VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS AT 300

“These are performances so special that I feel a changed man from listening to them.”
— Gramophone

300 years after publication, Vivaldi’s Opus 8, Nos. 1-4 (“The Four Seasons”) remain as popular as ever. This program frames these iconic works in a new light, inviting questions about the fleeting, cyclical nature of our existence, our relationship with nature, and the eternal renewal of earth’s cycles. Selections from Monteverdi, Uccellini, and Geminiani pair with Vivaldi’s iconic work in this stirring concert.

An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists specialized in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments, Les Arts Florissants are renowned the world over. This concert features the San Diego debut of Théotime Langlois de Swarte, who is rapidly emerging as a much sought-after violin soloist (on both baroque and modern instruments), chamber musician, recitalist, and conductor. Gramophone wrote of him, “Performances so special that I feel a changed man from listening,” while The Strad called him “A stunner by any standard” and The New Yorker wrote he was “mesmerizing.”