• 2014 marks the 250th anniversary of Locatelli’s death • I Musici”, founded 1951, made this very important recording of Locatelli’s Tre Concerti Grossi op. 1 in 1959 • This performance is still considered as one of the best ever realized of this little known masterpieces. • At the end of this CD there are the Vivaldi’s three Concerti, op. 4, recorded 1962

Musici: a real legend in the history of classical disco, in Sixties and Seventies of twentieth century of the rediscovery of the great eighteenth century Italian instrumental repertoire that was too long neglected and put in a second plan than one of German-Austrian origin. This release presents one of the greatest classical works of the eighteenth century- the famous Albinoni Adagio in F minor recorded by Musici in 1961 with three incredible violin Concertos by Pletro Antonio Locatelli the most important predecessor of Paganini’s Italian virtuosity.