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Vivaldi - 4 seasons
Composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Performer
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti, conductor
Period
Baroque
Catalogue Number
BIS-2103 SACD
EAN
7318599921037
Format
SACD Hybrid
This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo
Release date
Jan 2015
Total time
67'37
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saw the publication of what was to become one of the most important musical collections of the first half of the 18th century: Antonio Vivaldi’s L’estro armonico (‘The Harmonic Fancy’). Scored for one, two, or four violin soloists, the twelve concertos in the set fuelled a burgeoning fashion for new Italian music in northern Europe, and were soon being avidly performed and enjoyed in major musical centres, inspiring younger composers including Bach, Handel and Telemann. Vivaldi’s set – represented here by the Concerto in B minor, RV 580 and Violin Concerto in A minor, RV 356 – established a vogue for a virtuosic and brilliant type of writing, with fast movements characterized as much by their propulsive basses as by conventional melodiousness and with central slow movements often exuding a mesmeric, almost ghostly calm. Fourteen years later another collection of concertos – Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (‘The Contest of Harmony and Invention’) – would secure Vivaldi’s reputation for eternity. The first four concertos of this collection form what has become one of the most widely spread classical compositions in the history of music: Le Quattro Stagioni. Countless violinists have recorded Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, not to mention the many arrangements of the pieces for other instruments. Now Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a team internationally recognized for its virtuosity, energy and individuality, has recorded their take on Vivaldi’s springtime birdsong, summer thunderstorm, autumn hunting and chattering teeth of icy winter. The programme also includes two typically Vivaldian slow movements, a Largo and a Grave, as well as a Sinfonia for strings originally intended as the overture of the opera La verità in cimento (‘Truth in contention’).
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No.1 in E major, RV269, ‘La primavera’
9'34
01
I. Allegro
3'19
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02
II. Largo
2'20
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03
III. Allegro
3'55
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Concerto No.2 in G minor, RV315, ‘L’estate’
10'27
04
I. Allegro non molto
5'17
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05
II. Adagio – Presto
2'26
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06
III. Presto
2'44
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Concerto No.3 in F major, RV293, ‘L’autunno’
11'25
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I. Allegro
4'55
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08
II. Adagio molto
3'14
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09
III. Allegro
3'16
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Concerto No.4 in F minor, RV297, ‘L’inverno’
8'25
10
I. Allegro non molto
3'21
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11
II. Largo
1'46
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12
III. Allegro
3'18
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from Concerto in D major, RV226
13
II. Largo
1'34
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Concerto in B minor, RV580
9'16
14
I. Allegro
3'36
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15
II. Largo
2'19
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16
III. Allegro
3'21
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Concerto in A minor, RV356
7'22
17
I. Allegro
2'51
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II. Largo
2'11
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III. Presto
2'20
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from Concerto in D major, RV562
20
II. Grave
3'14
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Sinfonia from La verità in cimento, RV739
4'35
21
I. Allegro
1'38
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22
II. Andante
2'06
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23
III. Presto
0'51
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Album total
67'37
Composer
Vivaldi, Antonio
Conductor / violin
Tognetti, Richard
Chamber orchestra
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Tognetti, Richard
Orchestra
Australian Chamber Orchestra
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