Baroque Concerti from The Netherlands
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95809
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 9th April 2021
Contents
Works
Concerti e Concerti grossi (6), op.5Concerti grossi (8), op.10
Concerto in G major for solo flute, 2 flutes, viola and b.c.
Concerti grossi (6), op.3
Violin Concerto in A minor
Concerto in G minor for recorder, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and b.c
Sinfonie (6), op.3
Artists
Combattimento ConsortMusica Ad Rhenum
Conductors
Jan Willem de VriendJed Wentz
Works
Concerti e Concerti grossi (6), op.5Concerti grossi (8), op.10
Concerto in G major for solo flute, 2 flutes, viola and b.c.
Concerti grossi (6), op.3
Violin Concerto in A minor
Concerto in G minor for recorder, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and b.c
Sinfonie (6), op.3
Artists
Combattimento ConsortMusica Ad Rhenum
Conductors
Jan Willem de VriendJed Wentz
About
Hence, in this unique collection, we find a remarkable diversity of style, from Wassenaer’s post-Corellian concerti grossi to the more galant music of Albertus Groneman. Meanwhile Willem de Fesch and Pieter Hellendaal moved to England and never returned to their homeland. Hellendaal’s ‘grand concertos’ are likewise Italian in style, though cast in a ripieno idiom whereas de Fesch’s concertos draw on his expertise as a solo violinist, rooted as much in the heritage of Vivaldi as Corelli. Most of the concertos on CD4 were composed by foreign arrivals: itinerant musicians such as the German-born Johann Christian Schickhardt and Anton Wilhelm Solnitz of Bohemian origins.
The performances here, made in the 1990s and early 2000s and originally issued on the Dutch NM Classics label, enjoy a lively but not doctrinaire appreciation of historically informed style. Although the Combattimento Consort uses modern instruments, they play them implementing the techniques that van Wassenaer and Ricciotti would have known. The sound the players generate is therefore old and new, and should offend neither camp in the current round of period-instrument wars. Musica ad Rhenum, familiar from their considerable Brilliant Classics catalogue, play on instruments of the era or copies thereof. They are renowned among the most stylish of Dutch early-music groups.
‘The interpretations brim with verve and lucidity… de Vriend and his compatriots execute these works with excellent definition, a fine sense of shape and balance, and musical intelligence.’ – Fanfare, January 2002 (Wassenaer)
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