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Complete Concertos & Sinfonias by Vivaldi / L'archicembalo (CD, 2019)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelBrilliant Classics, Brlt

UPC5028421958354

eBay Product ID (ePID)7046053105

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2019

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistVivaldi / L'archicembalo

Release TitleComplete Concertos & Sinfonias

Dimensions

Item Height0.93 in

Item Weight0.44 lb

Item Length5.61 in

Item Width4.97 in

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Number of Discs4

NotesFounded in 2000, L'Archicembalo is a period ensemble of top-notch Italian musicians who have played with all the major native exponents of Baroque music such as Giovanni Antonini and Giuliano Carmignola. According to La Stampa, the ensemble ranks among the most inspiring and authoritative Vivaldi interpreters of our time. Part of this collection was released separately in 2015, and attracted glowing reviews: 'The tempi are well chosen, without exaggerations, but also without being too slow... Italian ensembles have shown that [these Sinfonias] are more than nice fillers in a programme of solo concertos. In this recording the polyphonic, theatrical and expressive qualities of these pieces are brought to light´ What sets apart these concertos and sinfonias from the multitude of other such works composed by Vivaldi is the lack of a solo instrument. Yet with his usual, inexhaustible fertility of invention, Vivaldi turned this apparent lack into an opportunity to explore the possibilities of development and counterpoint more extensively than was possible in the oppositional and accompanimental language of the solo concertos. After a dashing opening movement there is generally a central Adagio, in the form of a tripartite song or a simple sequence of chords. This is followed by a lively, dance-like movement in two parts with two refrains. On occasion this finale is replaced by a technically superlative Fugue that displays Vivaldi's mastery of counterpoint. Sometimes the Fugue is placed at the beginning of the Concerto, perhaps implying the original context of the work as the instrumental introduction to a solemn Mass. In complement to the concertos, the Sinfonias generally feature bolder and more brilliant string writing, evidently for use as the curtain-raiser to a theatrical event, though they now stand perfectly well on their own.