Vivaldi: Cello Concertos / Four Seasons / Venice - The Golden Age
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos / Four Seasons / Venice - The Golden Age
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Midori Seiler (violin) Xenia Loffler (baroque oboe) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit
[ Harmonia Mundi Key Artist & Ensemble Sets / 3 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 November 2015
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For the first time in 3 CD sets, discover these major recording projects matured over many years by ensembles and musicians of harmonia mundi including Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin's Vivaldi recordings.
"The timbre and sonority of Queyras's instrument imparts a rich, antique flavour, while his deft bowing - as on the finale to the "Concerto in G minor" - perfectly embodies the Vivaldian qualities of delight and vivacity. The album is full of memorable moments" (Independent on Cello Concertos)
"Queyras's handling of Vivaldi's dazzling streams in the faster movements is brilliant and precise, despite extreme tempos, and he is eloquently expressive in the beautifully phrased slower music. In two effervescent and sophisticated concertos for two violins and cello (RV 415 and RV 565), his partners, Georg Kallweit and Elfa Run Kristinsdottir, are equally good." (Sunday Times on Cello Concertos)
"The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras illustrates the fallacy of that argument. ...Queyras is equal to all Vivaldi's challenges and intricacies, adopting a buoyant "period" style that is fully matched by the incisive, pungent playing of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin." (Daily Telegraph on Cello Concertos)
"Berlin's Akademie delivers an elegant performance with piquant avian effects." The Independent, 31st January 2010 (Elements/Seasons)
"Here, in all its radiant apparel, is the splendour of Venice's golden age...Loffler is a fine performer with a rounded, mellow tone and remarkable dexterity...a captivating musical portrait of La Serenissima, whose distinctive colours and rhythmic energy suffuse this disc." BBC Music Award Nomination 2015 - Concerto (Venice - Golden Age)
"It is always a pleasure to hear the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, whatever they play...the third 'theme' of the disc is undoubtedly the superb oboe-playing of Xenia Loffler, as smooth and swellingly expressive in slow movements as it is ripplingly agile in quicker ones. It is masterly playing and this disc is her triumph." Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 - Baroque Instrumental (Venice - Golden Age)
Tracks:
Caldara:
Sinfonia No. 6 'Sam Elena al Calvario'
Sinfonia No. 12 'La Passione di Gesu Signor nostro'
Vivaldi:
Concerto for strings No. 5, RV 114
Concerto for cello, bassoon, strings & continuo RV409
(with Christian Beuse, bassoon)
Cello Concerto in F major, RV 412
Cello Concerto in G minor, RV416
Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 419
Cello Concerto in B minor, RV424
Concerto, Op. 3 No. 11 'Con due Violini e Violoncello obligato', RV 565
Sinfonia in C major, RV 709
Marcello, A:
Oboe Concerto in D Minor
Porta, G:
Sinfonia for trumpet, strings & continuo in D
Rom:
Concerto 'L'Olimpiade' in C major, Quasi-Pasticcio after Antonio Vivaldi & Carlo Tessarini
Tessarini:
Overture in D major from Op. 4 'La Stravaganza'
Vivaldi:
Concerto for strings in E minor, RV 134
Concerto in B flat major RV364, RV Anh.18
Concerto RV 576 for violin, recorders, oboes & bassoon
Oboe Concerto in C major, RV450
Rebel:
Les Élémens
Vivaldi:
The Four Seasons
