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This is the 46th title in the Vivaldi Edition and the 4th volume, out of approximately 12, of the series dedicated to the violin concertos whose manuscripts are held in the National Library of Turin. All the concertos selected here were composed for, dedicated to or performed in front of Charles VI (1685-1740), sovereign of the Habsburg Empire, renowned as patron and passionate lover of music. This series of 7 concertos is an overview of the complete art of Vivaldi as a composer and violinist: large-scale music, invention, expression, energy, power of evocation, played with considerable virtuosity.
Riccardo Minasi, 33, is one of the leading Italian baroque violinists and also has a career as a conductor Il Pomo d'Oro is a new baroque orchestra that gathers excellent musicians from several high-level baroque orchestras including Il Complesso Barocco.
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 331
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in C major, RV 171
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro non molto
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 9, No. 12, RV 391
I. Allegro non molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E major, RV 271, "L'amoroso"
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 327
I. Allegro non molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E major, Op. 9, No. 4, RV 263a
I. Allegro non molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro non molto
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in C major, RV 181
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in C major, Op. 9, No. 1, RV 181a
Violin Concerto in C major, Op. 9, No, 1, RV 181a: III. Allegro
September 2012
“Riccardo Minasi is a player with lively feeling for theatrical gesture and a technique that comfortably accommodates Vivaldi's virtuosity. He breathes life into these wonderfully expressive concertos with a musical rapport that perhaps responds more readily to bravura passages than to lyrical ones...committed Vivaldians should be delighted.”
September 2012
“His virtuosity cannot be doubted and his tone courses like a young stream but a restless imagination looks beyond straightforward niceness and elegance for something deeper, more sharply moulded, in places even darker...This is not really Vivaldi as easy listening...But for anyone wanting a touch of Dionysian poetry, it is a disc worth returning to.”
June 2012
“Minasi is certainly an impressive virtuoso and his playing is rhythmically exciting and expressively affecting in equal measure. His account of the Largo of the G minor Concerto, RV327 is beautifully sustained and tenderly spoken. Yet too often, elsewhere, I feel cheated of the music's 'gentillesse' and its lyricism. Notwithstanding such misgivings, though, this is impressive playing by all concerned.”
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