Vivaldi - Bassoon Concertos Volume 4 | Naxos 8557829

Vivaldi - Bassoon Concertos Volume 4

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557829

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th January 2007

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In perfecting the newly developing form of the Italian solo concerto, Vivaldi wrote nearly five hundred concertos, of which 39 are for the bassoon with strings and continuo.
 
Within the confines of the three movement form, Vivaldi achieves remarkable variety. The fast outer movements demand considerable virtuosity as the soloist negotiates the wide leaps and contrasts between the upper and lower registers of the instrument. The inner slow movements are often in the form of an aria which explores the lyrical, soulful potential of the bassoon.
 
Volumes 1, 2 and 3 are available on Naxos 8.555937, 8.555938 and 8.557556.
 
Tamas Bankócs is a splendid advocate, whose watertight technique allows him on the one hand to revel in Vivaldi's many virtuosic flights of fancy and on the other to sustain with lyrical grace the hauntingly beautiful melodic contours of slow movements.” BBC Music Magazine on Volume 1 8.555937

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