Vivaldi 12 Sonatas

Clas Pehrsson, recorder, studied both music teaching and musicology and was active as a violinist and violist before deciding in the mid-1960s to dedicate most of his time to the recorder. His extensive international career as a soloist and chamber musician has included collaboration with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble in many countries in Europe and Asia as well as in the USA and Australia.

Clas Pehrsson, recorder, studied both music teaching and musicology and was active as a violinist and violist before deciding in the mid-1960s to dedicate most of his time to the recorder. His extensive international career as a soloist and chamber musician has included collaboration with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble in many countries in Europe and Asia as well as in the USA and Australia.

This 28 CD box set includes the Argo jewels from Marriner’s early recording days with the chamber orchestra he founded in 1958, The Academy of St Martin in the Fields. The edition spans the years 1964-1981, and includes a bonus CD of the first recordings from 1961.The collection concentrates on the Argo years, when the pattern for the Academy’s success was set. Winning performances by soloists such as Alan Loveday and Iona Brown — who in 1974 became Marriner’s successor in directing from the violin – were a key part of the fabric of the Academy’s unique sound. Highlights in this box include the legendary recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and full performances of Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem.

Recorder player Mutsuyuki Motomura's latest album is titled "Portraits in French Baroque Sonatas". Spreading the wings is to spread the wings of an insect, etc., so that it can be used as a specimen. The "Sonata", which has a taste for France and Italy, is programmed like a beautiful picture with small pieces of personality mixed in.

25 disc box set featuring music for the classical guitar from the 16th century up to the present day. Some of the works performed include 'Chaconnes' by Bach and Telemann, '12 Sonatas' by Scarlatti, 'Guitar Concertos' by Vivaldi, Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' and Brouwer's 'Music for Solo Guitar'.

This collection represents the full range of Vivaldi recordings Christopher made with the AAM, and includes L'Estro Armonico Op.3, La Stravaganza Op.4, and the violin concertos Opp. 6, 8, 9, 11, and 12; solo concertos for flute (op. 10), oboe, bassoon, and cello; and various concerti grossi. Also featured are the complete cello sonatas, along with the cantatas "Amor, hai vinto" and "Nulla in mundo pax sincera", and sacred vocal works Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus and the enduringly popular Gloria.

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerti per Fagotto II
Sergio Azzolini, fagotto / L'Aura Soave Cremona / Diego Cantalupi
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 359 MB | Full Artwork: 92 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Naive # OP 30518 | Country/Year: France 2011
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

"Considering the small number of solo concertos for the bassoon from the baroque period the number of Vivaldi's compositions for this instrument is remarkable. With 39 concertos for one bassoon this part of his oeuvre is the second largest of his instrumental output, after the concertos for violin. That is all the more notable as there is no conclusive evidence that this instrument was played at the Ospedale della Pietà. Vivaldi wrote the largest part of his instrumental works for the girls of this institution…"