VIVALDI ANTONIO

(CD) THE FOUR SEASONS
Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of the world's most popular and widely recorded collections of music, a set that instantly became an international hit after it was first published at part of the composer's Op.8 in 1725. No doubt it was its imitative directness - extra musical occurrences/phenomena evoked in an extremely suggestive manner and even written into the score, such as 'the barking dog' or 'the drunkards' sleep' etc. - that caused such as sensation in its time, effortlessly bridging the gap between the salons of the highborn and the...
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(CD) OBOE SONATAS
Sonata in G minor FXIII No.5 RV28 Sonata in C FXV No.3 RV48 Sonata in B flat FXII No.16 RV34 Sonata in G minor FXV No.9 RV51 Sonata in C minor FXV No.2 RV53 Sonata in G minor FXVI No.10 RV58, from Il pastor fido Op.13 No.6 by Chedeville, once attributed to Vivaldi ENSEMBLE J.M. ANCIUTI Paolo Pollastri: baroque oboe Gaetano Nasillo: cello Alberto Guerra: baroque bassoon Giovanna Losco: harpsichord...
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(66CD) VIVALDI EDITION
The master of Italian Baroque music is indisputably Antonio Vivaldi. Throughout his life, he composed hundreds of works, and is remembered perhaps second only to J.S. Bach, ranking as one of the most popular composers of all time. His oeuvre crosses an extraordinarily wide range, from instrumental compositions of all types to sacred cantatas and operatic works, a vast number of which are presented in this comprehensive box set. Vivaldi composed a large part of his works while working at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice, where he was emp...
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(CD) GLORIA - MAGNIFICAT
In 1701 Antonio Vivaldi was appointed violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pieta - an orphanage that specialised in musical training for young girls. The choir master, Francesco Gasparini, retired in 1713 and his successor was not deemed to have been successful enough as a composer; Vivaldi was selected to provide all compositions required for the chapel. It was during this time that Vivaldi composed the works recorded on this disc. In addition to these pieces, it has since been discovered that there was a contractual requirement for the c...
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(CD) JAMES EHNES
James Ehnes takes a break from the 19th and 20th century repertoire and has recorded for the first time in his career four of the most famous baroque violin concertos - Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the first four works in his set of 12, op8. James also directs the Sydney Symphony. Vivaldi provided his own sonnets as prefaces to each of the concertos and these are available from the ONYX website. The Vivaldi is prefaced by two famous violin sonatas - Tartini's Devils Trill in the skilful arrangement by Fritz Kreisler which is very faithful to th...
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(2CD) CELLO CONCERTOS
Vivaldi remains one of the best-known composers of Italian Baroque music, one of the most frequently performed and appreciated in our modern age. To be sure, his works are imbued with the joyous bustle, the swirling movement that was the very soul of Settecento Venice. But the more we get to know this composer's output, the better we understand the craze this outstanding virtuoso inspired throughout Europe in his day. In this respect, the cello concertos stand with those for violin at the very peak of Vivaldi's art....
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(4CD) COMPLETE CELLO CONCERTOS
Vivaldi wrote an astonishing 500 concertos during his lifetime, of which 27 were composed for solo cello. At the time, the instrument was in its infancy, and it was unusual for great composers to write works specifically for solo cello. Indeed, none of the concertos were published during Vivaldi's lifetime: they had been written specially for his young female students at the Ospedale della Piet?, where the composer was employed in Venice, and were therefore not widely known. However, Vivaldi clearly saw the potential in the new instrument,...
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(CD) OPERA OVERTURES
Recorded in 2002, this release contains a unique program of the complete overtures of all Vivaldi's operas. As an opera composer, Vivaldi has long been neglected, but these works showcase his great dramatic genius. Performances on period instruments by Modo Antiquo, conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli, one of the foremost specialists in this field, who has also recorded for full price labels such as Na?ve and Deutsche Grammophon....
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(2CD) L'ESTRO ARMONICO
Antonio Vivaldi was one of the most successful composers of the Baroque era, best known for his iconic set concertos for violin, The Four Seasons. L'Estro Armonico Op.3 is among the most important printed editions of Vivaldi's concertos; the works immediately met with great acclaim after their publication in 1711, giving way to over 30 reprints in the subsequent 32 years. Indeed, this was the first collection of concerti to be published with a title, showing that the composer himself was aware of the nature of this extraordinary event. The...
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(2CD) TRIO SONATAS OP.1
Here's another engaging release dedicated to Vivaldi's chamber music from the renowned Italian ensemble L'Arte dell'Arco, one which visits the earlier part of the Baroque composer's career through detailing his first published work (in 1705), the 12 Trio Sonatas Op.1. Federico Guglielmo, principal violinist and co-founder of the ensemble, explains in the liner notes that 'in those days the first work a composer had printed often represented not only proof of maturity and membership of the circle of composers, but also the most corrected an...
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(CD/DVD) MAGNIFICAT AND CONCERTI
J.S.BACH: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052 Pierre Hantai (harpsichord) Magnificat in D major, BWV243 Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Johannette Zomer (sopranos), Damien Guillon (countertenor), David Munderloh (tenor) & Stephan MacLeod (baritone) La Capella Reial de Catalunya A.VIVALDI: Concerto, Op. 3 No. 2 'Con due Violini e Violoncello obligato', RV 578 Manfredo Kraemer, Pablo Valetti (violins) Magnificat in G minor, RV610 Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Johannette Zomer (sopranos), Damien Guillon (countertenor), David Munderloh (tenor) & Stephan MacLe...
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(2CD) VIOLIN SONATAS OP.2
Following the critical success of their set devoted to Vivaldi's Op.6 set of concertos, not to mention earlier albums devoted to more arcane areas of the Red Priest's output such as concertos for organ (BC94059), mandolin and lute (BC93810) and even an opera (Ottone in Villa, BC94105), L'Arte dell'Arco and Federico Guglielmo now explore the accompanied sonatas which the composer wrote on the occasion of the visit of the King of Denmark to La Serenissma late in 1708. Thus this set is, despite its misleading early opus number, very much the...
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(CD) LA VIOLA DA GAMBA IN CONCERTO
1-3 Double Concerto ("All'inglese"), for violin, cello, strings & continuo in A major, RV 546 - Antonio Vivaldi & Gabriele Bella (8:26) 4-7 Concerto for 2 violins, cello, strings & continuo in D Minor ("L'estro armonico" No. 11), Op. 3/11, RV 565 - Antonio Vivaldi & Gabriele Bella (8:44) 8-10 Concerto funebre, for violin, oboe, chalumeau, 3 violas all'inglese, strings & continuo in B flat major, RV 579 - Antonio Vivaldi & Gabriele Bella (7:43) 11-13 Double Concerto ("Il Proteo, o sia Il mondo al rovescio"), for violin, cello, s...
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(3CD) COMPLETE OBOE CONCERTOS
Amazing to think in these days of plenty, when Vivaldi's sun has surely never shone brighter, that there can still be examples of his 660 or so concertos which have yet to be heard on record, but this invaluable set contains one such work, the G minor concerto RV459, as well as all the other works which the Venetian composer originally wrote for an instrument for which he evidently conceived a great affection, well suited as it is to the virtuoso roulades and trills which distinguish his writing for his own instrument, the violin, as well ...
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(CD) CONCERTOS FOR THE EMPEROR
Andrew Manze, leading The English Concert in their second recording together, demonstrates the electrifying, spontaneous style of playing which has made him one of the hottest properties on the classical music scene. This programme brings together for the first time a reconstruction of six violin concertos from the manuscript which Vivaldi presented to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1728. A royal treat indeed! "With violinis Andrew Manze... holding the reins... you can feel electricity crackle again." - The Times, London...
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(CD) CONCERT FOR THE PRINCE OF POLAND
Dazzling music for a glittering occasion. On March 21st, 1740, a gala concert was held at the famous Ospedale della Pieta in Venice to honour the visiting Frederick Christian, Prince of Poland. The four concertos written by the sixty-one-year-old Vivaldi still survive in the manuscript which was presented to the Prince as a souvenir of the occasion. Possibly the composer's last works, their brilliant technical writing, unusual scorings and innovative instrumental sonorities surely rank them among his most delightful music....
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(3-CD SET) CONCERTI DA CAMERA
[CD1] 1-3. Concerto in C RV87 4-6. Concerto in G minor RV107 7-9. Concerto in D RV95 10-12. Concerto in D RV94 13-15. Concerto in F RV99 16-18. Concerto in G minor RV105 [CD 2] 1-3. Concerto in F RV100 4-7. Sonata in A minor RV86 8-10. Concerto in G minor RV106 11-14. Concerto in C RV801 15-17. Concerto in D minor RV96 18-20. Concerto in G minor RV103 [CD3] 1-3. Concerto in A minor RV108 4-6. Concerto in D RV84 7-9. Concerto in D RV91 10-12. Sonata in C minor RV83 13-15. Concerto in D RV92 16-18. Concerto in C RV88 COLLEGIUM PR...
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(2CD) OTTONE IN VILLA
Antonio Vivaldi's fame as an opera composer is due in now small part to his incredible industry. He composed around 50 operas, and of these around 16 have survived complete - several substantial fragments of others have also survived. However, it is for his instrumental music that he remains one of the major baroque composers - on a par with Handel and J.S. Bach. However, in the world of opera at the time, only one other composer rivalled Vivaldi in the use of orchestral colour and the way in which the human voice was blended with the acc...
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(40-CD SET) VIVALDI EDITION
Stravinsky's acid comment that Vivaldi composed one concerto 500 times is easily dismissed when one hears the sheer variety and wealth of invention contained on these 40CDs. His use of instrumental colouring, and creative use of programmatic themes- most famously in the first four concertos op8 known as the 'Four Seasons', and op8 No.5 'The Storm at Sea' show him to be a master of orchestration. His concertos also came to the attention of the young J.S Bach, who admired the Venetian master greatly, transcribing some of the concertos for or...
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