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Title: Concerti Per la Pieta
Artist: Biondi Galante
Label: Glossa
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 8424562234147
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020-02-07
Number of Discs: 1
Violinist Fabio Biondi has a singular capacity for finding something new and exciting in the music of Antonio Vivaldi whenever he considers it, a prodigious feat which he demonstrates with Concerti per La Pietà, a new collection of works calling for a variety of demanding solo challenges, superbly met by Biondi and his colleagues from Europa Galante. In his Venetian years the well-spring of Vivaldi an inventiveness was fed by the composer working with one of the leading orchestras of early eighteenth-century Europe: the one at the Ospedale della Pietà, the charitable institution which took in, cared for -and educated - girls who had been orphaned or abandoned. Within the ospedale were nurtured instrumental virtuosos - known today only by their sporting nicknames: Bettina della viola, Margherita del arpa doppia, Lucieta della tromba, etc. Calling variously for solo violin, two violins, lute, cello, organ, or viola d'amore (Biondi plays an unreconstructed 1758 Vinaccia instrument), the concertos recorded here are drawn from across the thirty years in which Vivaldi worked at the ospedale. The freshness and personalness of Fabio Biondi's musicmaking with Europa Galante has itself now been in evidence for a remarkable three decades and this new recording won't disappoint listeners ready to have their preconceptions challenged yet be stimulated by consummate musicianship. An added attraction with this new Glossa release comes with the discussion of the programme, written by Pierre Élie Mamou, which succeeds in uniting Titian, Paul Verlaine, Rembrandt and Mathias Énard in a celebration of the music of Antonio Vivaldi!
Tracks:
1.1 Concerto Per Due Violini in D Major, RV 513
1.2 Concerto Per Violino Per la Signora Chiara in D Major, RV 222
1.3 Concerto Per Violino, Organo E Violoncello in C Major, RV 554A
1.4 Concerto Per Viola D'amore, Liuto Ed Archi in D minor, RV 540
1.5 Concerto Per Archi Ripieno in G minor, RV 152
1.6 Concerto Per Violino Per Anna Maria in E Flat Major, RV 349
Audio Sample:
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Artist: Biondi Galante
Label: Glossa
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 8424562234147
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020-02-07
Number of Discs: 1
Violinist Fabio Biondi has a singular capacity for finding something new and exciting in the music of Antonio Vivaldi whenever he considers it, a prodigious feat which he demonstrates with Concerti per La Pietà, a new collection of works calling for a variety of demanding solo challenges, superbly met by Biondi and his colleagues from Europa Galante. In his Venetian years the well-spring of Vivaldi an inventiveness was fed by the composer working with one of the leading orchestras of early eighteenth-century Europe: the one at the Ospedale della Pietà, the charitable institution which took in, cared for -and educated - girls who had been orphaned or abandoned. Within the ospedale were nurtured instrumental virtuosos - known today only by their sporting nicknames: Bettina della viola, Margherita del arpa doppia, Lucieta della tromba, etc. Calling variously for solo violin, two violins, lute, cello, organ, or viola d'amore (Biondi plays an unreconstructed 1758 Vinaccia instrument), the concertos recorded here are drawn from across the thirty years in which Vivaldi worked at the ospedale. The freshness and personalness of Fabio Biondi's musicmaking with Europa Galante has itself now been in evidence for a remarkable three decades and this new recording won't disappoint listeners ready to have their preconceptions challenged yet be stimulated by consummate musicianship. An added attraction with this new Glossa release comes with the discussion of the programme, written by Pierre Élie Mamou, which succeeds in uniting Titian, Paul Verlaine, Rembrandt and Mathias Énard in a celebration of the music of Antonio Vivaldi!
Tracks:
1.1 Concerto Per Due Violini in D Major, RV 513
1.2 Concerto Per Violino Per la Signora Chiara in D Major, RV 222
1.3 Concerto Per Violino, Organo E Violoncello in C Major, RV 554A
1.4 Concerto Per Viola D'amore, Liuto Ed Archi in D minor, RV 540
1.5 Concerto Per Archi Ripieno in G minor, RV 152
1.6 Concerto Per Violino Per Anna Maria in E Flat Major, RV 349
Audio Sample:
All soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.
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