Extravagance as a lifestyle/Pietro Locatelli

Today's guest of our podcast is the "foreign virtuoso Locatelli". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Locatelli He was quite an outstanding figure in the 18th century. Some contemporaries left a notice about Locatelli's performance before Frederick William I, which anecdotally describes the musician's self-assurance and his vanity in wearing gorgeous, diamond-studded clothes. Nevertheless a library with over a thousand documents shows Locatelli's interest in literature and science. It includes ornithological, theological, church historical, political, geographical, art historical and mathematical works, and literature on music theory dating back to the 16th century.  This man was not that simple and the flute sonata that we are going to sight-read for you today confirms our opinion. Sonata n.2 in D major https://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/2/25/IMSLP469963-PMLP42689-Locatelli_12_sonate_Op_2_low_res.pdf In today's episode we are going to: - talk about some special ways of articulation - unexpected modulations - a new trill fingering that was found - try it faster? Don't forget to follow our Telegram channel https://t.me/insight_reading_enlightenment  Yours Darina and Sebastien