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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was a contemporary of Bach and Handel and though best known for ... more
"Albinoni's Adagio", which was actually composed by an Italian musicologist in the mid-twentieth century, was with Vivaldi one of the great composers of the Venetian Baroque. The oboe came to prominence in Venice in the 1690s, just in the period when the concerto was finding its classical shape, and Albinoni, who had written operas and cantatas, and whose wife was an opera singer, brought a "singing", lyric voice to his oboe writing. His Opus 9 collection (1715) was dedicated to the Elector of Bavaria, Max II Emanuel for performance at the Court in Munich. Of the 12 Concerti in the full work, four are for a single oboe and four are duets. In addition to Concerti 2, 5, 8 & 11, this album contains the duet Concerti 3 & 9 with Julia Girdwood, principle oboist with the Covent Garden Orchestra eloquently accompanying Anthony Camden, himself one of the founders of The London Virtuosi (and for 16 years principle oboe with the London Symphony Orchestra). Six baroque oboe concertos at once may seem like too much of a fine thing, yet this music contains such diverse melodic charms that an hour in this sparkling, elegant company becomes an exquisite pleasure. --Gary S. Dalkin
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Advantages: Classic Concertos for Everybody Disadvantages: Strings only!!!no woodwind...boo!
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Thus Vivaldi wrotes sonnets to accompany his music and to establish each thought in his mind.
It is obvious to say then that Concerto is labelled Spring through to Winter, with three movements within each season.
Most form again adopts the ABA construction, a favorite of Vivaldi.
These are as follows:
1: Spring: Concerto No.1 in E Major
Allegro / Largo / Allegro
This I think, is the most well known of the Concertos, and has been used on numerous car adverts and airline adverts. This is what most people remember Nigel Kennedy playing at the very beginning of Nigel Mania!!!!
The string compostion reflects the freshness of spring and depending on what recording you buy (trust me there is loads of
choice!) this normally sells the album, this movement is the most played also by a leading Classical Radio.
2: Summer: Concerto ...
The tuba has generally been ignored as a solo instrument, and although it enjoyed some success in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and the operas of Wagner, it didnt really emerge as a solo instrument until the 20th century. However, recently the tuba's potential as a soloist has been realised through the children's tale, Tubby the Tuba, where the whole point of the story is to highlight the fact that most peoploe would not think the tuba of being capable in taking a soloistic role, but the fact that it can take this role, and take it extremely successfully is shown here in this CD with these four Tuba Concerti, that were all written in the years after Tubby the Tuba.
The first Tuba Concerto on the CD is Tuba Concerto (1978) by Edward Gregson.
1 - Allegro deciso
2 - Lento e mesto
3 - Allegro giocoso
This concerto begins ...
Advantages: Mutter's eloquence and sensitivity in older recording are enhanced here. Disadvantages: None at all!
As a fantastically talented eighteen-year-old, Anne-Sophie Mutter already awed me with her sensitive and thoughtful eloquence in her 1981 recording of the Brahms violin concerto (with Herbert von Karajan directing the Berlin Philharmonic). However, there?s an even deeper understanding in Mutter?s reading of the Brahms piece on this newer disc.
This performance was taped live at the Lincoln Center?s Alice Tully Hall, New York City, in 1997. Kurt Masur conducts the New York Philharmonic in particularly inspired fashion. A difference of fifteen years separates the two recordings. In the time between, she married, had children, and then was widowed at a very young age.
When Mutter returned to her instrument, she would bring a greater strength, emotional depth and insight to her playing, lending a maturity and assuredness to her ...
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