Andrea Zani: Concertos for Violin & Strings (1729)

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Release Date: 24th Oct 2011
Catalogue No: PC10254
Label: Pan Classics
Length: 77 minutes

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Zani: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 2, No. 1

Work length13:14

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Alessandro Ciccolini (violin)
Compagnia de' Musici
Recorded: April 1998
Recording Venue: Chiesa di S. Chiara, Casalmaggiore, Italy

I. Vivace

Track length4:58

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II. Largo

Track length4:11

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III. Spiritoso

Track length4:05

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Zani: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 2, No. 6

Work length17:25

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Alessandro Ciccolini (violin)
Compagnia de' Musici
Recorded: April 1998
Recording Venue: Chiesa di S. Chiara, Casalmaggiore, Italy

I. Allegro

Track length5:36

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II. Largo

Track length6:23

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III. Allegro, ma non tanto

Track length5:26

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Zani: Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 2, No. 5

Work length16:19

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Alessandro Ciccolini (violin)
Compagnia de' Musici
Recorded: April 1998
Recording Venue: Chiesa di S. Chiara, Casalmaggiore, Italy

I. Allegro

Track length5:43

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II. Largo assai

Track length5:44

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III. Allegro

Track length4:52

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Zani: Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 2, No. 3

Work length16:59

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Alessandro Ciccolini (violin)
Compagnia de' Musici
Recorded: April 1998
Recording Venue: Chiesa di S. Chiara, Casalmaggiore, Italy

I. Allegro

Track length5:42

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II. Largo assai

Track length6:38

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III. Allegro

Track length4:39

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Zani: Violin Concerto in C major, Op. 2, No. 4

Work length13:41

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Alessandro Ciccolini (violin)
Compagnia de' Musici
Recorded: April 1998
Recording Venue: Chiesa di S. Chiara, Casalmaggiore, Italy

I. Allegro

Track length5:13

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II. Adagio

Track length3:51

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III. Allegro

Track length4:37

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Not that much is known about Andrea Zani (1696-1757).

Antonio Caldara, master of music at court in Mantua, invited him to accompany him to Vienna where he was also assistant master of the music at the Habsburg court. Zani arrived, in Vienna, sometime between 1727 and 1729 and actively participated in the concert scene and as a composer, leaving Vienna after the death of his patron Caldara in 1736, and returning to Italy where he spent the rest of his life.

His Op. 2, published in 1729 in his native town Casalmaggiore (near Mantua), consists of six each of symphonies and concertos. The chamber symphonies are modest compositions for string orchestra in a relatively simple and incisive musical style. The concertos, on the other hand, are certainly the more significant compositions of the collection. Here Zani puts all his talents to use, creating splendid compositions for violin and string orchestra in the solemn church style.

The present disc features five of these concertos.

Zani was certainly well acquainted with the style and compositions of Vivaldi and the latter's influence is unmistakeable in the musical language, structure and instrumental figures of Zani’s Op. 2. Here we find all the typical elements of solo violin virtuosity in the 18th century: scale progressions, arpeggios, frequent use of repeated chords, broken chords, double-stopping passages and the complete and frequent use of all five left hand positions currently in use at the time.

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