Antonio Vivaldi - Concertos For Flute, Mandolin, Bassoon & Violin

The concertos featured on this CD were discovered under the most unusual cir-cumstances. In 1926, the Salesian fathers, who ran a Piedmontese boarding school, inquired at the National Library in Turin about the value of a manuscript collection they owned. The material was turned over to Professor Alberto Centili at Turin University, who found before him volume upon volume of Vivaldi manuscripts. It transpired that the collection had once belonged to Count Giacomo Durazzo, a patron of Chick. Later, another substantial portion of the Durazzo holdings was found in Genoa, in the home of one of his descendants. The two groups of Durazzo manuscripts are known as the Mauro Foa and Renzo Giordano Collections. The Concerto for Two Mandolins is technically a concerto grosso, with the two mandolins comprising the cencertino role. Vivaldi probably wrote for this unusual combination to endear himself to influential patrons who played the mandolin. The C Minor Concerto, dubbed La notte, is a concerto grosso in which the high-pitched flute and the low-voiced bassoon form the concertino. Here, the composer abandons his customary three-movement pattern for a multi-sectional and rhapsodic structure whose individual sections follow each other without break. Vivaldi also applied the construction idea from his solo concertos to his concerti ripieni or concerti a quattro, which were three-movement pieces for string ensemble (violins I and II, viola, bass) with a keyboard instrument (harpsichord or organ), as in the Concerto in A Major. The Concerto in C Minor for Bassoon is one of a total of 38 concerti Vivaldi wrote for this instrument. He must have had excellent players at his disposal, for these are virtuoso pieces which exhibit charming instrumental combinations. The Concerto in C Major for Violin, Strings in due con and Two Harpsichords noticeably connects Baroque instrumental music with Renaissance vocal art. The due cori that form the division of the orchestra are direct descendants of the cori spezzati (split choruses that sang in alternation, following the ancient antiphonal practice). The application of the cori spezzati technique to instrumental music led to the concerto grosso.

I Solisti Di Zagreb
Antonio Janigro: conductor
Herbert Tachezi: harpsichord

01. Concerto In G Major for Two Mandolins, Strings & Organ - I. Allegro (4:20)
02. Concerto In G Major for Two Mandolins, Strings & Organ - II. Andante (2:29)
03. Concerto In G Major for Two Mandolins, Strings & Organ - III Alegro (3:39)
04. Concerto In G Minor For Flute, Bassoon, Strings & Harpsichord - I. Largo (2:21)
05. Concerto In G Minor For Flute, Bassoon, Strings & Harpsichord - II. Fantasmi (Presto) (2:46)
06. Concerto In G Minor For Flute, Bassoon, Strings & Harpsichord - III. Il Sonno (Largo) (1:39)
07. Concerto In G Minor For Flute, Bassoon, Strings & Harpsichord - IV Allegro (2:52)
08. Concerto In A Major For Strings & Harpsichord - I. Allegro molto (2:57)
09. Concerto In A Major For Strings & Harpsichord - II. Andante molto (2:42)
10. Concerto In A Major For Strings & Harpsichord - III. Allegro (2:18)
11. Concerto In G Minor For Bassoon, Strings & Harpsichord - I. Presto (3:58)
12. Concerto In G Minor For Bassoon, Strings & Harpsichord - II. Largo (3:29)
13. Concerto In G Minor For Bassoon, Strings & Harpsichord - III. Allegro (3:10)
14. Concerto In C Major For Violin, Two Strings Choirs & Two Harpsichords - I. Andante (5:30)
15. Concerto In C Major For Violin, Two Strings Choirs & Two Harpsichords - II. Largo (3:12)
16. Concerto In C Major For Violin, Two Strings Choirs & Two Harpsichords - III. Allegro (5:36)

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