Ensemble Volcania, Elisabeth Champollion & Daniel Sepec - Villa Vivaldi

Joy, despair, love, hate, exuberance: in Vivaldi's music, the outermost extremes of emotion connect within the smallest of spaces. Leaping over genres, Villa Vivaldi palpably, audibly, and movingly links Antonio Vivaldi's virtuoso instrumental concerti to modern commissioned works that were written specifically for this program: trait� des passions by Moritz Eggert and the title piece Villa Vivaldi by Mark Scheibe. Verve and perfection� a magnificent debut from Volcania!

The international musician-adventurers of the ensemble led by Elisabeth Champollion and Franciska Anna Hajdu find glamour, heat, and joy in the scores of Vivaldi, Bach and other past masters as well as the commission of compelling new music from living composers, whose works draw on the intensity of baroque passions using the musical language of today.