Vivaldi: Concerti per vari strumenti II
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Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco. Dirigent: Gianluca Capuano. Präsentation einer neuen Vivaldi-CD
“Naïve Records is very proud to include Les Musiciens du Prince in its prestigious recording project Vivaldi Edition. This unique project began in 2000 and will conclude in 2028. Its aim is to record 450 works by Vivaldi, a large part of which were previously unknown, and which are preserved in the National Library of Turin. The recording by Les Musiciens du Prince presents some of Vivaldi’s most exciting concertos and proudly marks the 75th release of the Vivaldi Edition to date.”
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First collaboration between the label naïve and Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco, the ensemble created in 2016 by the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Jean-Louis Grinda (then director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo), this volume 75 of the Vivaldi Edition once again explores the field of concertos per vari strumenti (“for various instruments”), more than twenty years after the first volume conceived with the Freiburger Barockorchester and Gottfried von der Goltz (Vol. 7, Concerti di Dresda, 2003, OP 30283). In this part of his vast catalogue, the Red Priest displays a constant spirit of fantasy and asserts an unfailing aptitude for cleverly pairing timbres. His extraordinary sensitivity to timbre, and the expressive dimension he gives to each instrumental color, may be explained by the various positions (violin master, composer) he held at the Ospedale della Pietà between 1703 and 1740, where he worked with female musicians able to play all kinds of instruments, as well as by the connections he regularly maintained (for about ten years, from 1716 onwards) with the Dresden court chapel, a true hub of some of the most important virtuosos in early 18th-century Europe. The present selection of six concertos perfectly reflects the infinite variety of combinations favored by Vivaldi. The Concerto in C major RV 557 (for two violins, two oboes, two recorders, bassoon, strings and basso continuo) is reminiscent of the works of a Heinichen in Dresden, as is the Concerto con molti istromenti RV 555 whose broad and varied instrumentation, including winds, bowed (and sometimes plucked) strings and harpsichords, more directly reflects a genre very much in vogue in the 1720s–1730s in Saxony. Conversely, the Concerto in B-flat major RV 553 presents four obligati violins which often engage in paired dialogue, and despite its brilliant tone recalls the concerto grosso in its structure, as well as the concerto da camera genre in its relative effusiveness. As for Concertos RV 535 and RV 543, they prominently feature the oboe, doubled by a second in the first, and by a violin in the second. The natural changes in texture lead Vivaldi to explore various approaches in terms of dynamics and instrumental balance. Throughout this recording, with its highly delicate balances (Concerto RV 570, Presto) and its remarkably refined palette (Concerto RV 555, Largo a piacimento, or Concerto RV 543, Minuetto), Les Musiciens du Prince display an unwavering elegance. Led by the ensemble’s musical director, Milanese Gianluca Capuano, the tempi are both perfect and natural, the lines clearly drawn. Forty-seven minutes imbued with an absolutely spring-like sense of joy!
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