Vivaldi - Gods, Emperors & Angels (Concertos for recorder, violin, bassoon & strings)
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Label: Avie
Cat No: AV2201
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 3rd May 2010
Contents
Works
Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV500Bassoon Concerto in D minor, RV482
Concerto for Strings in B flat major, RV163 'Conca'
Concerto in G major, RV312R
Concerto no.6 in B flat Major, RV526 'con due violini'
Piccolo Concerto in A minor, RV445
Sonata in A minor, RV86
Violin Concerto in E major, RV271 'L'Amoroso'
Artists
Adrian Chandler (violin)Pamela Thorby (recorder)
Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima
Works
Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV500Bassoon Concerto in D minor, RV482
Concerto for Strings in B flat major, RV163 'Conca'
Concerto in G major, RV312R
Concerto no.6 in B flat Major, RV526 'con due violini'
Piccolo Concerto in A minor, RV445
Sonata in A minor, RV86
Violin Concerto in E major, RV271 'L'Amoroso'
Artists
Adrian Chandler (violin)Pamela Thorby (recorder)
Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima
About
Who are these Gods, Emperors and Angels in the title in this release? Vivaldi was connected to many Highnesses on the European continent, foremost among them the widely cultured Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV to whom Vivaldi dedicated his set of concertos titled La Cetra, meaning “The Lyre,” hence likening the emperor to the lyre-playing god Apollo.
The theme continues with the oddly titled Concerto Conca or “Conch Concerto,” alluding to the use of the conch shell as a musical trumpet, heard in the work’s first movement, and as used by Triton, son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and by Neptune’s attendants.
The Angels are undoubtedly Vivaldi’s virtuoso female students at the Ospedale della Pietà, one of which was described in a contemporary anonymous poem: “She plays the violin in such a way / that anyone hearing her is transported to Paradise / if indeed it is true that up there / the angels play like that.”
Chandler and his forces, delivering their eighth imaginative album for Avie, play like gods, emperors and angels indeed, further securing their exalted place in the realms of early music performance.
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