Vivaldi: Concerti Per Violin

Il Pomo D'Oro, Riccardo Minasi – Vivaldi: Concerti per violin Vol.4 'L'Imperatore' (2011) (Repost)

Il Pomo D'Oro, Riccardo Minasi – Vivaldi: Concerti per violin Vol.4 'L'Imperatore' (2011)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:17:17 | 466 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: OP30533

With this release, France's Naïve label continues its series of complete recordings of a set of rediscovered Vivaldi manuscripts housed at the National Library of Turin in Italy. Naïve is not usually given to this kind of completist enterprise, but each of these albums has been at least interesting, and some of them seem likely to permanently remake the general Vivaldi repertory as the works played seep into it. This album belongs to the latter group.
Il Pomo d'Oro, Dmitry Sinkovsky – Vivaldi: Concerti per violin, Vol.5 "Per Pisendel" (2012) (Repost)

Il Pomo d'Oro, Dmitry Sinkovsky – Vivaldi: Concerti per violin, Vol.5 "Per Pisendel" (2012)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:17:50 | 518 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: OP 30533

This is the 49th title in the Vivaldi Edition and the 5th volume, out of approximately 12, of the series dedicated to the violin concertos whose manuscripts are held in the National Library of Turin. All the concertos selected here are linked to German violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, member of the Dresden orchestra, who spent time in Venice in 1716-17, with the Electoral Prince of Saxony Friedrich August. Vivaldi and Pisendel became very close friends and the Red Priest composed several works for Pisendel.
Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino, vol. VII 'Per il castello' (2019)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino, vol. VII 'Per il castello' (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 370 Mb | Total time: 75:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 7078 | Recorded: 2019

This sixty-second volume of the epic Vivaldi Edition is also the seventh volume of the flamboyant Red Priests violin concertos. Here we see the ageing composer more full of life than ever, adapting to the demands of the galant style in vogue since 1725, while losing nothing of his verve and imagination. These are the sole surviving concertos of the fifteen that, during his fateful last year in Viennese exile, Vivaldi sold for a pitifully small sum to Count Vinciguerra Tommaso Collalto, a Venetian nobleman then residing in his castle at Brtnice, Moravia (the castello of this volumes title). With solo writing of extreme refinement, these works fully exploit the whole range of violinistic expression and phrasing, displaying a wealth of ornamentation and a lavishly inventive sense of lyrical cantabile virtuosity.
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino VI 'La boemia' (2018)

Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino VI 'La boemia' (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 379 Mb | Total time: 68:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30572 | Recorded: 2017

Vivaldi wrote hundreds of violin concertos, yet even this tiny sample of six, written during the composer’s visit to Prague between 1730 and 1731, demonstrates in every movement his genius of harmonic and dramatic surprise. Each concerto is startlingly original, from the opening movement of the E Minor RV 278 that pits daring solo passages against a hypnotic, pulsing orchestra, while the same concerto’s Largo even feels modern in its angularity. A more familiar Vivaldi can be heard in the C Major RV 186, with its Italianate innocence and winsome middle Largo. But whatever the composer’s mood, Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante thrill to his ingenuity at every step.
Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino VIII 'Il teatro' (2020)

Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino VIII 'Il teatro' (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 62:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30585 | Recorded: 2019

This is the first time a French violinist has joined the line of prestigious solo virtuosi recording for the Vivaldi Edition. Violinist Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge founded in 2015, and modeled on one of the most celebrated orchestras of the late 18th century here reveal all the discreet charms of an inventive concertante style rich in detail, featuring Vivaldis favored instrument. This particular set of concerti highlight the consistently close links between Vivaldis instrumental and operatic works. Transcending the difference of genre, the Venetian composers unitary conception of language and style allowed him to pass with the deft skill of a juggler from one domain to the other, making them happily converge on common ground, writes Cesare Fertonani.
Florian Deuter, Harmonie Universelle - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino (2008)

Florian Deuter, Harmonie Universelle - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 524 Mb | Total time: 57:03+52:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Eloquentia | # EL 0815 | Recorded: 2007

This is not just another disc (or, in this case, double disc) of Vivaldi violin concertos, but rather one of very few discs on the market to treat a chronological aspect of Vivaldi's career. In question here are early works by the Red Priest. These concertos date from around 1700 to 1710 and were thus composed prior to the appearance of the L'estro armonico, Op. 3, and La stravaganza, Op. 4, sets that made Vivaldi's name. Most of them appear on other recordings, but many were only recently authenticated. And not very many musicians have tried to draw a portrait of Vivaldi as a young man.
Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi, Dmitry Sinkovsky – Vivaldi: Concerti per due violini e archi, Vol.1 (2013)

Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi, Dmitry Sinkovsky – Vivaldi: Concerti per due violini e archi, Vol.1 (2013)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 53:41 | 336 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: OP 30550

This is the 51st title in the Vivaldi Edition and the 6th volume, out of approximately 12, of the series dedicated to the violin concertos whose manuscripts are held in the National Library of Turin. Following two successful volumes of concertos for solo violin and orchestra recorded separately in the Vivaldi Edition, virtuosos Riccardo Minasi and Dmitry Sinkovsky now join forces to record pyrotechnic concertos for two violins and orchestra.
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per La Pietà (2020)

Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per La Pietà (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 357 Mb | Total time: 71:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 923414 | Recorded: 2019

[Violinist Fabio Biondi has a singular capacity for finding something new and exciting in the music of Antonio Vivaldi whenever he considers it, a prodigious feat which he demonstrates with Concerti per La Pietà, a new collection of works calling for a variety of demanding solo challenges, superbly met by Biondi and his colleagues from Europa Galante. In his Venetian years the well-spring of Vivaldi an inventiveness was fed by the composer working with one of the leading orchestras of early eighteenth-century Europe: the one at the Ospedale della Pietà, the charitable institution which took in, cared for –and educated – girls who had been orphaned or abandoned.[/quote]
Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino X 'Intorno a Pisendel' (2022)

Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per violino X 'Intorno a Pisendel' (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 403 Mb | Total time: 60:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 7546 | Recorded: 2021

This tenth volume of violin concertos marks the return of Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge to the Vivaldi Edition, with works linked to Pisendel, a major musical figure in the court of Dresden in the 18th century. Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge released a hugely successful volume of Vivaldi concertos with a theatrical theme in 2020. In this new album they perform works focusing on Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), konzertmeister at the Dresden Court chapel, and pupil and friend of Vivaldi, who played a key role in the popularity of the Red Priest's music in Dresden.
Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico, Christophe Coin - Vivaldi: Concerti per violoncello I (2007)

Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico, Christophe Coin - Vivaldi: Concerti per violoncello I (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 311 Mb | Total time: 65:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30426 | Recorded: 2006

After the violin and bassoon, Vivaldi apparently like the cello best as a solo instrument. Because while the Italian Baroque master wrote somewhere over 200 violin concertos and 39 bassoon concertos, he also wrote 28 cello concertos. Part of his special affection may come from the fact that Vivaldi himself seems to have invented the genre. Although there had been passages for solo cello in earlier composers' works, Vivaldi apparently wrote the first actual concertos featuring the cello throughout. This disc, the first in Naïve's Vivaldi's Edition's releases of all the concertos played by Christophe Coin with Il Giardino Armonico led by Giovanni Antonini, is an easy winner.