JULY 29 wp - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution

Label: Stradivarius
File Under: Classical/Orchestral
Catalogue No: STR33944
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Format: 1 CD
Packaging: digipack
Insieme Strumentale di Roma
Paolo Perrone [violin]
Giorgio Sasso [violin and conductor]
VIVALDI: Violin Concertos
Insieme Strumentale di Roma
Giorgio Sasso
Concerto in F major RV 287 for violin, strings and continuo
Concerto in C major RV 508 for two violins, strings and continuo
Concerto in G minor RV 517 for two violins, strings and continuo
Concerto in C major RV 113 for strings and continuo
Concerto in G minor RV 321 for violin, strings and continuo
Concerto in D minor RV 240 for violin, strings and continuo
Concerto in D major RV 123 for strings and continuo
RELEASE DATE
29TH JULY 2013
From the liner notes by Pablo Queipo de Llano:
The seven concertos presented on this CD constitute an anthology of Vivaldi’s repertory for strings in his most preferred
forms: the four-part concerto without a solo instrument, the concerto with one or two solo violins. Although the three types
of the genre were already well known when Vivaldi began to cultivate them in the first decade of the 18th century, the
advent of the Red Priest caused an authentic revolution in the repertory both in Italy and abroad. Apart from the
sensuous musical substance which characterises them, the main formal novelty of Vivaldi’s concertos consists in the
“stellar” arrangement of the solo parts, which in Vivaldi’s works is seen in a hitherto unknown splendour. Vivaldi raises
the soloist to the position of authentic protagonist of the concerto, going beyond the discreet role which the fathers of the
genre - Corelli, Torelli and Albinoni among others – had given them. Although the string concertos without a soloist –
called 'Concerti Ripieni' by Vivaldi – prove to be less spectacular because of the absence of a soloist, the personality of
the Venetian maestro still stands out.