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Vivaldi: Concerti Con Molti Istromenti

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Cat No: CDH55439

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Release Date:  01 October 2012

Label:  Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571154398

Genres:  Classical  Baroque  

  • Description

    Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Vivaldi's multiple-instrument concertos!
    The term 'con molti istromenti' (Vivaldi's own) refers not so much to the literal number of instruments involved as to their variety and unusual deployment. For an Italian concerto of the period to use wind instruments at all would be unusual; Vivaldi combines recorders, oboes, chalumeaux, horns and bassoons alongside a wide-ranging complement of strings, itself including viole all'inglese and the even more obscure violins 'in tromba marina'.
    The composer's opportunity to write such works arose largely from the talented pool of girls available at the Pieta orphanage in Venice. These expert musicians would turn their hands to whatever Vivaldi could possibly desire and the resultant scoring is colourful (sometimes outrageously so) and inexhaustibly inventive.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. <b>Concerto in F major RV574</b> <i>for violin, two oboes, bassoon, two horns and
      • 2. <b>Concerto in F major RV574</b> <i>for violin, two oboes, bassoon, two horns and
      • 3. <b>Concerto in F major RV574</b> <i>for violin, two oboes, bassoon, two horns and
      • 4. <b>Concerto funebre in B flat major RV579</b> <i>for oboe, chalumeau, violin, thre
      • 5. <b>Concerto funebre in B flat major RV579</b> <i>for oboe, chalumeau, violin, thre
      • 6. <b>Concerto in D major RV562</b> <i>for violin, two oboes, two horns and strings&l
      • 7. <b>Concerto in D major RV562</b> <i>for violin, two oboes, two horns and strings&l
      • 8. <b>Concerto in D major RV562</b> <i>for violin, two oboes, two horns and strings&l
      • 9. <b>Concerto in F major RV97</b> <i>for viola d amore, two horns, two oboes and bas
      • 10. <b>Concerto in F major RV97</b> <i>for viola d amore, two horns, two oboes and bas
      • 11. <b>Concerto in F major RV97</b> <i>for viola d'amore, two horns, two oboes and bas
      • 12. <b>Concerto in D major RV781</b> <i>for two trumpets and strings</i> <b&g
      • 13. <b>Concerto in D major RV781</b> <i>for two trumpets and strings</i> <b&g
      • 14. <b>Concerto in D major RV781</b> <i>for two trumpets and strings</i> <b&g
      • 15. <b>Concerto in C major RV555,</b> Allegro
      • 16. Largo [1'46]
      • 17. Allegro
      • 18. <b>Concerto in D minor RV566</b> <i>for two recorders, two oboes, bassoon, two vio
      • 19. <b>Concerto in D minor RV566</b> <i>for two recorders, two oboes, bassoon, two vio
      • 20. <b>Concerto in D minor RV566</b> <i>for two recorders, two oboes, bassoon, two vio