Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz - Vivaldi: Bizzarie Venetiane. Concerti per vari strumenti (1995)

• Title: Vivaldi: Bizzarie Venetiane. Concerti per vari strumenti
  
• Year Of Release: 1995
  
• Label: Cantus Records
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: flac lossless +Booklet
  
• Total Time: 02:25:15
  
• Total Size: 829 mb
  
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Tracklist

CD1
01. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Major, "Il rosignuolo", RV 335a: I. Allegro
02. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Major, "Il rosignuolo", RV 335a: II. Largo
03. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Major, "Il rosignuolo", RV 335a: III. Allegro
04. Concerto for 2 Traversos, Strings and Continuo in C Major, RV 533: I. Allegro molto
05. Concerto for 2 Traversos, Strings and Continuo in C Major, RV 533: II. Largo
06. Concerto for 2 Traversos, Strings and Continuo in C Major, RV 533: III. Allegro
07. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV 541: I. Allegro
08. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV 541: II. Grave
09. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV 541: III. Allegro
10. Concerto for Traverso, 2 Violins, Violoncello and Continuo in G Minor, RV 107: I. Allegro
11. Concerto for Traverso, 2 Violins, Violoncello and Continuo in G Minor, RV 107: II. Largo
12. Concerto for Traverso, 2 Violins, Violoncello and Continuo in G Minor, RV 107: III. Allegro
13. Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Major, RV 554a: I. Allegro
14. Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Major, RV 554a: II. Andante
15. Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Major, RV 554a: III. Allegro
16. Concerto for Recorder, Strings and Continuo in C Minor, RV 441: I. Allegro non molto
17. Concerto for Recorder, Strings and Continuo in C Minor, RV 441: II. Largo
18. Concerto for Recorder, Strings and Continuo in C Minor, RV 441: III. Allegro
19. Concerto for Violoncello, Strings and Continuo in G Minor, RV 417: I. Allegro
20. Concerto for Violoncello, Strings and Continuo in G Minor, RV 417: II. Andante
21. Concerto for Violoncello, Strings and Continuo in G Minor, RV 417: III. Allegro
22. Concerto for Traverso, Organ, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV 767: I. Alla breve
23. Concerto for Traverso, Organ, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV 767: II. Larghetto
24. Concerto for Traverso, Organ, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV 767: III. Allegro

CD2
01. Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G Major, "Alla rustica", RV 151: I. Presto
02. Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G Major, "Alla rustica", RV 151: II. Adagio
03. Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G Major, "Alla rustica", RV 151: III. Allegro
04. Concerto for Traverso, Strings and Continuo in D Major, "Il cardellino", Op. 10 No. 3, RV 428: I. Allegro
05. Concerto for Traverso, Strings and Continuo in D Major, "Il cardellino", Op. 10 No. 3, RV 428: II. Cantabile
06. Concerto for Traverso, Strings and Continuo in D Major, "Il cardellino", Op. 10 No. 3, RV 428: III. Allegro
07. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Minor, RV 766: I. Allegro
08. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Minor, RV 766: II. Largo
09. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Minor, RV 766: III. Allegro
10. Sonata for Violin, Traverso and Organ in C Major, RV 779: I. Andante
11. Sonata for Violin, Traverso and Organ in C Major, RV 779: II. Allegro
12. Sonata for Violin, Traverso and Organ in C Major, RV 779: III. Largo e cantabile
13. Sonata for Violin, Traverso and Organ in C Major, RV 779: IV. Allegro
14. Concerto for Traverso, Violin, Violoncello and Continuo in D Major, RV 92: I. Allegro
15. Concerto for Traverso, Violin, Violoncello and Continuo in D Major, RV 92: II. Aria
16. Concerto for Traverso, Violin, Violoncello and Continuo in D Major, RV 92: III. Allegro
17. Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in G Minor, RV 155: I. Adagio
18. Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in G Minor, RV 155: II. Allegro
19. Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in G Minor, RV 155: III. Largo
20. Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in G Minor, RV 155: IV. Allegro
21. Concerto for Traverso, Strings and Continuo in D Major, RV 783: I. Allegro
22. Concerto for Traverso, Strings and Continuo in D Major, RV 783: II. Largo
23. Concerto for Traverso, Strings and Continuo in D Major, RV 783: III. Allegro
24. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV 542: I. Allegro
25. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV 542: II. Alla franchese
26. Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV 542: III. Allegro

At the end of the 90’s, the label Cantus licensed some of the best recordings by the ensemble Musica ad Rhenum, founded by great artists coming from groups like Musica Antiqua Köln, Camerata Köln or Concerto Armonico, and led by American traverso player, Jed Wentz. Now, some of those recordings have been remastered and released again by Cantus with new covers, new translations and new design, forming a series called “The Musica ad Rhenum Archives”.

It has become commonplace to say that Vivaldi composed the same concerto 500 times, and to point the accusing finger of 20th century superiority at what we believe to be Vivaldi’s lack of invention. It is our hope that this recording of Vivaldi’s concerti will help to clear up this misunderstanding, for if any 18th-century composer proved himself capable of variety and invention not only of form but also of content, it was Vivaldi.
Some of these concerti are wild, bizarre and melancholy like the d minor Concerto RV 541 (CD1 [7-9]), with its strange harmonic progressions and its emotional and trembling second movement. Others are joyous and light-hearted, like the triple Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, Organ, Strings and Continuo in C Major, RV 554a (CD1 [13-15]), while the A Major concerto (CD 1 [1-3]) in imitation of the nightingale displays Vivaldi’s sense of fun. A variety of influences make themselves felt in these pieces, the French style making a quick appearance in the otherwise very Telemannian Concerto for Violin, Organ, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV 542 (CD 2 [24-26]), while the Spanish style prevails in the sunny and dramatic Concerto for Traverso, Organ, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV 767 (CD 1 [22-24]). This Spanish influence can also be felt in the last movement of the Sonata for Violin, Traverso and Organ in C Major, RV 779 (CD 2 [10-13]), two movements of which contain typically Vivaldian tone painting (the bucolic second movement ends with a written-out organ cadenza representing a fierce thunderstorm, while the third movement evokes a moonlit gondola ride through Venice!).
In his unusually expressive and virtuosic concerti, Vivaldi strove not only to captivate his audience by means of ever new and surprising musical sensations, but also to sweep them, with his extremely passionate instrumental style, into the most diverse and contradictory of emotional states. This vehement style caused a kind of a musical landslide, not only in the rest of Europe, but in Venice itself, where the music of il prete rosso had, accordding to Pompeo Gherardo Molmenti, ‘a powerful effect on soft and sensitive souls. Contemporaries bear witness that many a woman burst into sobs and tears on hearing his music, and went into a state of ecstasy.’ In September 1728 no one less than the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI met the internationally famed music phenomenon Vivaldi. This meeting between emperor and composer caused the Abbé Conti to remark: ‘The emperor spoke with Vivaldi a long time about music. It’s said that he told him more in two weeks than his ministers in two years.’

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