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Altogether the great Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi left 27 concertos for cello, string orchestra and basso continuo. This is the second volume of these works to be released in the critically acclaimed “Vivaldi Edition” from Naïve. The CD features the same expert performers as Volume l, the distinguished French cellist Christophe Coin and Il Giardino Armonico under the conductor Giovanni Antonini. Out of the seven concertos included on the disc, it is worth mentioning a few in particular. The concerto RV 411, in F major, is a sunny, fluent work from the 1720s, which, like so many of Vivaldi’s instrumental works from this period, bears strong traces of the lyrical style cultivated in his operas and cantatas. Expertly structured though this concerto is, its thematic content can be read as a potpourri of favourite musical motifs taken from the operatic stockpot. Most impressive of the works on this disc is the mature concerto in E flat RV 408. The key of E flat, greatly liked by Vivaldi, lends itself to the expression of solemn grandeur, a property abetted by the fact that the open string G is the third of the tonic triad. Like RV 411, this concerto has succumbed to the benign influence of the vocal style. It exemplifies to a high degree Vivaldi’s habit of combining the ultra-simple with the highly sophisticated. RV 417 is in G minor and conforms to tradition for this key by being fiery, almost truculent, in expression. A founder member of the multi-award winning Quatuor Mosaïques, Christophe Coin is recognised worldwide as one of the leading experts in the authentic performance of the cello repertoire. Since 1991, as director of the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, he has with great success explored the European repertoires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His career and his recordings of Vivaldi concertos were the subject of a major interview feature in The Strad this summer. Il Giardino Armonico, founded in Milan in 1985 and directed by Giovanni Antonini, is one of today’s most admired and sought-after ensembles specialising in performance on period instruments, especially music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Depending on the demands of each programme, the group will consist of anything from three to thirty musicians. “…Coin's intelligent yet engaging and tenderly expressive playing touches the heart, indeed often melts it. An outstanding disc.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 ***** “…you would need to have ears of putty not to respond to Coin's smooth, silvery tone - perhaps the loveliest you'll hear from a Baroque cello - but his poetic musical sensitivity also enables him to rise to memorable expressive heights…” Gramophone Magazine, January 2009 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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plus cello concertos assembled from movements of other Vivaldi concertos
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| |  | Baroque Voices 14 - Vivaldi: Cantatas & Concertos
Vivaldi composed for the violin, Vivaldi composed for the contralto voice... always with a wealth of inspiration, as well as impressive virtuosity, and constant joy and vitality. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Vivaldi: Cello Concertos, Vol. 2
“Performances which revel in the vitatlity of Vivaldi's music and which are sensible to its beguiling but all too often overlooked fantasy.” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Vivaldi: Musica Sacra
Vivaldi: | Gloria in D major, RV589 Magnificat, RV611 Concerto for Strings and Continuo in D minor, RV128 Concerto No. 2 for horn and oboe in D major, RV 563 Stabat Mater, RV621 Clarae stellae, scintillate, RV625 Concerto in C major, RV554 Concerto ‘per la solennità di Lorenzo' in C, RV556 Concerto funebre in B flat major RV579 Concerto for Strings in E flat major 'Sonata al Santo Sepolcro', RV130 Canta in prato, ride in monte, RV623 Invicti, bellate - Mottetto per contralto, archi e continuo RV 628 in G major Longe mala, umbrae, terrores, RV629 Nulla in mundo pax sincera, motet for soprano, strings & continuo, RV 630 O qui coeli terraeque serenitas, RV631 Vestro Principi divino - Mottetto per contralto, archi e continuo RV 633 in F major Cantata RV683 'Amor, hai vinto' for alto & strings Cantata RV684 'Cessate, omai cessate' for alto & strings Concerto RV117 for strings in C major Concerto for strings in E minor, RV 134 Concerto RV151 in G major for strings & basso continuo 'Alla rustica' Violin Concerto, Op. 4 No. 8 in D minor, RV 249 Cello Concerto in A minor, RV422 |
Naïve’s very successful ‘Baroque Voices’ series of mid-price re-issues goes one better with four special box sets at even greater discount. The last of these comprises four wide-ranging discs of Vivaldi’s sacred music. Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano again contribute extensively, performing on three mixed discs, with the popular Gloria, Stabat Mater, Cantatas and various concerti among the pieces, and Alessandro de Marchi directs the Academia Montis Regalis on a recording of six Vivaldi Motets. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Bach, J S: | Motets, BWV225-230 Arsys Bourgogne, Pierre Cao | Beethoven: | Christus am Ölberge, Op. 85 Das Neue Orchestre, Chorus Musicus de Cologne, Christoph Spering | Charpentier, M-A: | Mors Saülis et Jonathae H 403 Sacrificium Abrahae H 402 In Circumcisione Domini / Dialogus inter angelum et pastores H 406 Gérard Lesne (counter-tenor) Il Seminario Musicale | Vivaldi: | Cantata RV683 'Amor, hai vinto' for alto & strings Cantata RV684 'Cessate, omai cessate' for alto & strings Concerto RV117 for strings in C major Cello Concerto in A minor, RV422 Concerto for strings in E minor, RV 134 Violin Concerto, Op. 4 No. 8 in D minor, RV 249 Concerto RV151 in G major for strings & basso continuo 'Alla rustica' Sara Mingardo Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini |
This new specially-priced 4CD boxed set features outstanding recordings by some of the leading European ensembles of our day such as Concerto Italiano and Il Seminario Musicale. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Vivaldi: | Cello Concerto in D minor, RV405 Cello Concerto in C minor, RV401 Cello Concerto in B flat major, RV423 Cello Concerto in C major, RV 399 Concerto for cello, bassoon, strings & continuo RV409 Cello Concerto in D Major, RV403 Cello Concerto in B minor, RV424 Cello Concerto in A minor, RV422 Cello Concerto in C minor, RV402 Cello Concerto in F major, RV 412 Cello Concerto for piccolo cello, strings & continuo in G major RV 414 Concerto for cello, strings & continuo in D minor RV 406 Cello Concerto in F Major, RV411 Cello Concerto in D major, RV 404 Cello Concerto in A minor, RV420 Cello Concerto in D minor, RV407 Cello Concerto in G minor, RV417 Concerto for Violin, Cello & Orchestra in F major, RV 544 'Il Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio' Cello Concerto in A minor, RV418 Cello Concerto in E flat major, RV 408 Cello Concerto in G minor, RV416 Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 419 Cello Concerto in G major, RV413 Concerto for Violin & Cello in B flat minor, RV 547 Cello Sonata in E minor, RV40 Cello Sonata in B flat major, RV45 Cello Sonata in B flat major, RV46 Cello Sonata in A minor, RV43 Cello Sonata in B flat major, RV47 Cello Sonata in F major, RV41 |
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