About the music:

A concerto with fantastic scoring:

‘Concerto à due cori’ in A major (RV 585)
[Coro 1: two violins, two recorders, strings orchestra and basso continuo;
Coro 2: two violins, two recorders, organ, strings orchestra and basso continuo]

 

 

music:

complete score: click here.

 

 

recordings:

I. Allegro
II. Adagio (with an organ or a theorbo: Coro 1)

SOLOISTS:
Jean-Christophe Spinosi (violin I)
Alain Viaud (violin II)
Laurence Paugam (violin III)
Françoise Paugam (violin IV)
Sébastien Marq (recorder I)
Pierre Boragno (recorder II)
Gilles Thomé (recorder III)
Meillane Wilmotte (recorder IV)
Hélène Clerc-Murgier (organ I)
Christian Riché (organ II)
Mauricio Buraglia (theorbo)

Ensemble Matheus / Jean-Christophe Spinosi (conductor)

and III. Allegro (with two violoncellos: Cori 1 & 2):