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Here, in all its radiant apparel, is the splendour of Venice's golden age...Loffler is a fine performer with a rounded, mellow tone and remarkable dexterity...a captivating musical portrait of... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Aug 2014
Catalogue No: HMC902185
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 68 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

December 2014

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Rom: Concerto "L'Olimpiade" in C Major for oboe, strings and basso continuo, Quasi-Pasticcio (after Antonio Vivaldi and Carlo Tessarini)

Work length14:47

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I. Allegro ma poco

Track length5:01

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II. Adagio

Track length5:28

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III. Allegro

Track length4:18

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Vivaldi: Concerto in E Minor for strings and basso continuo, RV 134

Work length5:42

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I. Allegro

Track length2:26

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II. Andante

Track length1:49

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III. Allegro

Track length1:27

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Marcello, A: Oboe Concerto in D Minor

Work length9:28

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I. Andante e spiccato

Track length3:38

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II. Adagio

Track length3:10

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III. Presto

Track length2:40

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Porta, G: Sinfonia in D Major for strings, 2 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo

Work length4:28

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I. Allegro - Andante - Adagio

Track length3:22

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II. Allegro

Track length1:06

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Vivaldi: Concerto in B flat major for violin, oboe, strings and basso continuo, after RV 364, RV Anh.18

Work length8:09

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I. [Allegro]

Track length2:48

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II. Grave

Track length1:27

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III. Air

Track length2:14

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IV. Allegro

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Vivaldi: Concerto "per Sua Altezza Reale di Sassonia" in G Minor "for violino solo, oboe solo, oboe secondo, due flauti, archi e

Work length9:52

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I. Allegro

Track length3:58

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II. Larghetto

Track length2:17

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III. Allegro

Track length3:37

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Tessarini: Overture in D Major from "La Stravaganza" for strings and basso continuo, Op. 4

Work length6:02

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I. Allegro assai

Track length1:47

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II. Largo sempre piano

Track length2:27

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III. Presto

Track length1:48

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Vivaldi: Concerto in C Major for oboe, strings and basso continuo, RV 450

Work length10:01

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I. Allegro molto

Track length4:00

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II. Larghetto

Track length3:12

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III. Allegro

Track length2:49

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This disc is an invitation to explore one of the great attractions of Venice in the Baroque era, the famous 'ospedali'. These were establishments that took care of and educated children and adolescents. In the early 18 century almost all the leading Venetian musicians were linked with the musical activities of one of the ospedali. The best-known among them was Antonio Vivaldi: just 25 when he was hired as violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pietà. Among the residents of the Pietà was a girl named Pellegrina, for whom Vivaldi wrote many of his oboe concertos. Accompanied by her colleagues of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, oboist Xenia Löffler not only breathes new life into a selection of concertos by the ‘Red Priest', but also several by his emulators, among them a contemporary composer, Uri Rom.

The programme begins with a concerto composed by Rom [b. 1969] in 2013 to a commission from the Akademie für Alte Musik and dedicated to Xenia Löffler, one of today’s leading oboists. 'Concerto L’Olimpiade' is a sort of pasticcio based on works by Antonio Vivaldi and Carlo Tessarini. The first movement is based on the aria ‘Siam navi all’onde algenti’ from the opera' L’Olimpiade'. The second movement reflects the reception of the Italian style by J. S. Bach. The finale takes as its models a movement from a violin concerto by Vivaldi (RV 172) and a movement from a violin concerto by Tessarini. The solo part and the formal layout of the movement are new.

Since 2001 Xenia Löffler has been a member and principal oboist of the Akademie für Alte Musik, appearing regularly on international concert platforms as a soloist with that orchestra and with Collegium 1704 (Prague), the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle and the orchestra of the Halle Handel Festival.

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December 2014

Here, in all its radiant apparel, is the splendour of Venice's golden age...Loffler is a fine performer with a rounded, mellow tone and remarkable dexterity...a captivating musical portrait of La Serenissima, whose distinctive colours and rhythmic energy suffuse this disc.

October 2014

It is always a pleasure to hear the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, whatever they play...the third 'theme' of the disc is undoubtedly the superb oboe-playing of Xenia Loffler, as smooth and swellingly expressive in slow movements as it is ripplingly agile in quicker ones. It is masterly playing and this disc is her triumph.

November 2014

the star turn here is Loffler, whose evenly spoken playing, communicative articulation and dextrous technique make her one of the most accomplished Baroque players around at present.

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