Vivaldi - Concerti per una vita
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMM90237374
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 16th February 2024
Contents
Works
La divisione del mondo » Lumi, potete piangere
» Occhi miei si dormire
Fanfare in F majorBassoon Concerto in C major, RV478
» Diminutions on the Forlana (arr. Olivier Foures)
Cantata 'Sorge vermiglia in ciel', RV667 » Ardi, svena
Concerto for 2 horns in F major, RV539 » Fanfara (arr. Olivier Foures)
Concerto for Strings in B minor, RV168 (extract)Concerto in B flat major, RV583
» II Andante
Concerto in F major, RV569Dorilla in Tempe, RV709
» Sinfonia al ballo
La fida ninfa, RV714 » Tempesta di mare
The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) » Violin Concerto in G minor, op.8 no.2 R315 'L'estate'
Violin Concerto in A major, RV768 » Adagio
Violin Concerto in A minor, RV356Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV370 'Pisendel'
» Ciaconna (reconstr. Olivier Foures)
Violin Concerto in B minor, RV37aViolin Concerto in C major, RV171
Violin Concerto in D major, RV212
» Recitativo
Violin Concerto in D minor, RV237Violin Concerto in D minor, RV813
Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV250
Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV252
Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV256 'Il ritiro'
Violin Concerto in E major, RV267a 'per Anna Maria'
Violin Concerto in E minor, RV278
Sonata for violin and continuo no.3 in D minor
» Imitazione delle campane
Artists
Theotime Langlois de Swarte (violin)Le Consort
Works
La divisione del mondo » Lumi, potete piangere
» Occhi miei si dormire
Fanfare in F majorBassoon Concerto in C major, RV478
» Diminutions on the Forlana (arr. Olivier Foures)
Cantata 'Sorge vermiglia in ciel', RV667 » Ardi, svena
Concerto for 2 horns in F major, RV539 » Fanfara (arr. Olivier Foures)
Concerto for Strings in B minor, RV168 (extract)Concerto in B flat major, RV583
» II Andante
Concerto in F major, RV569Dorilla in Tempe, RV709
» Sinfonia al ballo
La fida ninfa, RV714 » Tempesta di mare
The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) » Violin Concerto in G minor, op.8 no.2 R315 'L'estate'
Violin Concerto in A major, RV768 » Adagio
Violin Concerto in A minor, RV356Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV370 'Pisendel'
» Ciaconna (reconstr. Olivier Foures)
Violin Concerto in B minor, RV37aViolin Concerto in C major, RV171
Violin Concerto in D major, RV212
» Recitativo
Violin Concerto in D minor, RV237Violin Concerto in D minor, RV813
Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV250
Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV252
Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV256 'Il ritiro'
Violin Concerto in E major, RV267a 'per Anna Maria'
Violin Concerto in E minor, RV278
Sonata for violin and continuo no.3 in D minor
» Imitazione delle campane
Artists
Theotime Langlois de Swarte (violin)Le Consort
About
One must get past the cliché (‘Vivaldi composed the same concerto 500 times’) to understand the extent to which composer, instrument and genre form an indissoluble whole; and that is what Théotime Langlois de Swarte and the musicians of Le Consort have set out to do.
From his early youth in Venice to his last days in Vienna, the ‘red-haired priest’ pushed back technical and academic boundaries, constantly creating new narrative forms: the journey of a lifetime.
From his early youth in Venice to his last days in Vienna, the ‘red-haired priest’ pushed back technical and academic boundaries, constantly creating new narrative forms: the journey of a lifetime.
Sound/Video
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1Legrenzi: La divisione del mondo: Aria ‘Occhi miei si dormire’
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2Sinfonia in B minor, RV168 (extract)
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3Violin Concerto in D minor, RV813: 1. Allegro
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4Violin Concerto in D minor, RV813: 2. Adagio
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5Violin Concerto in D minor, RV813: 3. Allegro
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6Violin Concerto in D minor, RV813: 4. Andante
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7Violin Concerto in D minor, RV813: 5. Largo
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8Violin Concerto in D minor, RV813: 6. Allegro vivace
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9Violin Concerto in A major, RV768: 2. Adagio
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10Violin Concerto in A minor, RV356: 1. Allegro
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11Violin Concerto in A minor, RV356: 2. Largo
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12Violin Concerto in A minor, RV356: 3. Allegro
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13Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV256 ‘Il ritiro’: 1. Allegro assai
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14Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV256 ‘Il ritiro’: 2. Andante
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15Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV256 ‘Il ritiro’: 3. Presto
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16Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV370: Ciaccona (reconstr. Olivier Fourés)
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17Violin Concerto in G minor, RV315 ‘L’estate’ (Genoa version): 1. Allegro non molto
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18Violin Concerto in G minor, RV315 ‘L’estate’ (Genoa version): 2. Adagio e piano – Presto e forte
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19Violin Concerto in G minor, RV315 ‘L’estate’ (Genoa version): 3. Presto
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20Violin Concerto in A major, RV349: Fantasia ‘per Anna Maria’
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21Violin Concerto in E major, RV267a ‘per Anna Maria’: 1. Allegro – Adagio – Largo – Allegro – Adagio
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22Violin Concerto in E major, RV267a ‘per Anna Maria’: 2. Andante
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23Violin Concerto in E major, RV267a ‘per Anna Maria’: 3. Allegro
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24Diminutions on the Forlana of Bassoon Concerto in C major, RV478 (Olivier Fourés)
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25Violin Concerto in C major, RV171 ‘per S.M.C.C.’: 1. Allegro
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26Violin Concerto in C major, RV171 ‘per S.M.C.C.’: 2. Largo
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27Violin Concerto in C major, RV171 ‘per S.M.C.C.’: 3. Allegro ma non molto
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28Violin Concerto in D major, RV21: Recitativo
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29Violin Concerto in E minor, RV278: 1. Allegro
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30Violin Concerto in E minor, RV278: 2. Largo
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31Violin Concerto in E minor, RV278: 3. Allegro
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32Legrenzi: La divisione del mondo: Aria ‘Lumi potet piangere’
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33Violin Concerto in B minor, RV37a: 1. Largo
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34Violin Concerto in B minor, RV37a: 2. Allegro
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35Violin Concerto in B minor, RV37a: 3. Largo (RV37)
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36Violin Concerto in B minor, RV37a: 4. Allegro (RV37)
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37Violin Concerto in B minor, RV37a: 5. Allegro (RV37a)
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38Concerto in F mjor for 2 horns, RV539: Fanfara (arr. Olivier Fourés)
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39La fida ninfa, RV714: Tempesta di mare
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40Dorilla in tempe, RV709: Sinfonia al ballo
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41Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV250: 1. Allegro molto
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42Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV250: 2. Adagio
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43Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV250: 3. Allegro
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44Westhoff: Violin Sonata no.3 in D minor: 3. Imitatione delle campane
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45Violin Concerto in D minor, RV237 ‘per Pisendel’: 1. Allegro
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46Violin Concerto in D minor, RV237 ‘per Pisendel’: 2. Adagio
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47Violin Concerto in D minor, RV237 ‘per Pisendel’: 3. Allegro
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48Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV252: 1. Allegro
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49Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV252: 2. Largo
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50Violin Concerto in E flat major, RV252: 3. Allegro
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51Fanfare in F major (after Jean-Joseph Mouret)
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52Violin Concerto in F major, RV569: 1. Allegro
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53Violin Concerto in F major, RV569: 2. Grave
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54Violin Concerto in F major, RV569: 3. Allegro
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55Sorge vermiglia in ciel, RV667: Aria ‘Ardi, svena’
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56Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV583: 2. Ciaconna
Europadisc Review
We have previously admired the artistry of the young French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte, in both baroque repertoire (violin concertos by Vivaldi, Leclaire and Locatelli) and later repertoire (‘Le Concert retrouvé’ celebrating Marcel Proust). Now he releases an ambitious double-album devoted to Vivaldi, a composer whose music he learnt to love while at his mother’s knee – or rather while singing music by the composer in the children’s choir she ran. Working together with a substantially enlarged version of his trio sonata group Le Concert, de Swarte has put together an absorbing sequence of works, combining a dozen violin concertos from across the composer’s lifetime together with individual movements that both enliven the flow of the narrative and provide a broader context for the music played.
Proceedings kick off with an aria (played here by solo violin) from Legrenzi’s opera La divisione del mondo, demonstrating both the style of Italian music being composed before Vivaldi’s birth and the operatic vocal style that became an important part of his musical vocabulary, particularly in the slow movements of his concertos. This appropriation of operatic style to animate the concerto genre anticipates Mozart by more than half a century.
The multi-movement Concerto in D minor, RV813, illustrates the more fractured form of Vivaldi’s earliest concertos, while the A minor Concerto (op.3 no.6) is a work familiar to many a budding violinist, although de Swarte’s fabulously lively and nuanced playing here raises it to unsuspected heights. Things really begin to heat up, however, with the E flat Concerto ‘Il ritiro’, whose chuntering tuttis, and rapid bariolage (string crossing to-and-fro) are hard to resist, especially when augmented by a continuo imaginatively enlarged with a psaltery.
More familiar will be ‘Summer’ from The Four Seasons, heard here in an earlier version originating in Genoa, with minor but fascinating differences in the more extreme portrayal of natural sounds. The slow movement of the E major Violin Concerto ‘per Anna Maria’, RV267a, is one of those lovely moods that surrounds the soloist with a mesmerising tapestry of sound, the sort of music that immediately seems to freeze time around the listener.
The second disc is just as compelling, with the motor-like rhythms and striking contrasts of the E minor Concerto, RV278, launching things off. Another B minor aria from Legrenzi’s La divisione del mondo is presented as a set of violin divisions over a bass line that bears a distinct resemblance to Dido’s Lament from Purcell’s famous opera. The first recording of a beautifully intimate Violin Concerto in B minor, RV37a, with parts of the bass line completed by musical adviser Olivier Fourés, provides a lovely contrast with the vibrant hunting music that follows, natural horns braying and timpani joining in for a fanfare and ‘Sinfonia al ballo’.
Then comes another of those wonderfully nutty flat-key concertos (and another first recording) in the E flat major b, RV250, where de Swarte is at his most virtuosic and the ensemble marvellously knit together. The Violin Concerto in D minor ‘per Pisendel’, RV237, is preceded by the ‘imitation of bells’ by J.P. Von Westhoff which it quotes at length. Featuring extensive bariolage effects, the listener can hear just how Vivaldi develops Westhoff’s exercise-like original into a convincing ritornello structure while retaining its descriptive magic.
Another E flat concerto, RV252, is the last of the many first recordings across the two discs, its bustling opening movement balanced by a laid-back and sunny concluding Allegro. The last complete concerto in this magnificent sequence is the F major Concerto, RV569, the orchestra enlarged with oboes, horns and timpani which make a thrilling, joyous sound which offsets the solo passages in uniquely ceremonial style.
The playing throughout from de Swarte and his colleagues is superb, attentive to every nuance of the music, achingly sensitive in the slow movements, and all the time delivered with the panache and engagement that this music both deserves and demands. As a single-album survey across Vivaldi’s career as a concerto composer, this is unrivalled, and it is crowned by a meltingly gorgeous account of the Ciaconna from the Violin Concerto in B flat, RV583 – one of those haunting movements that lingers in the memory long after the discs have stopped spinning. With perfect balance between soloist and ensemble across varying sizes of set-up, this is an album that will fascinate all lovers of Vivaldi and the concerto genre of the high Baroque.
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