Vivaldi - I Concerti dell’Addio
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD923402
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 9th February 2015
Contents
Works
Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV367Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV371
Violin Concerto in B minor, RV390
Violin Concerto in E minor, RV273
Violin Concerto no.2 in C major, RV189
Violin Concerto no.4 in F major, RV286
Artists
Fabio Biondi (violin)Europa Galante
Conductor
Fabio BiondiWorks
Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV367Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV371
Violin Concerto in B minor, RV390
Violin Concerto in E minor, RV273
Violin Concerto no.2 in C major, RV189
Violin Concerto no.4 in F major, RV286
Artists
Fabio Biondi (violin)Europa Galante
Conductor
Fabio BiondiAbout
Since the early 1990s, Antonio Vivaldi and Fabio Biondi have become inseparable. In his latest recording for Glossa, the latter offers further proof of the astonishing imaginative powers of Vivaldi as a composer of violin concertos, which are matched by Biondi’s own dynamic and cultured virtuosity as violinist (and director).
With these 'Farewell' Concertos Biondi turns to works written by a Vivaldi very near the end of his life as he travelled to Vienna in a desperate search for creative opportunities.
Where Biondi’s recent 'Il Diario di Chiara' release saw a late Vivaldi surrounded by colleagues and successors at the Pietà in Venice, 'I concerti dell’addio' sees him in a Vienna in mourning for its recently-deceased emperor and more attuned to the now-fashionable galante style than to that of the Red Priest, however brilliant and ebullient Vivaldi’s compositional spirit continued to be.
The six concertos on this disc are all drawn from a collection sold in 1741, very cheaply it seems, to the count Vinciguerra Collalto - today kept in Brno. They bear witness to Vivaldi’s late style as it headed in the direction of Tartini and Locatelli.
Biondi’s selection of concertos provides him full scope to portray the vivid and masterfully-conceived imagery, a compendium of violin techniques and the opportunities for improvisation implicit in Vivaldi’s maturity.
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