Antonio Vivaldi - Concerti e Cantate da Camera 1-3 3 CDs torrent

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerti e Cantate da Camera I-II 3Cd

Recorded 2000

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The drawing portrait by Leah Rose

mezzo soprano: Laura Polverelli
Orchesrta: L'Astrée Ensemble
Giorgio Tabacco
Conductor: Giorgio Tabacco
Performer: Gemma Bertagnolli

Concerti e Cantate da Camera I

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1-4. Concerto RV 97
5-7. Cantata RV 671
8-14. Concerto RV 104
15-18. Cantata RV 654
19-21. Concerto RV 105
22-24. Cantata RV 670

Concerti e Cantate da Camera II

You don't change a winning team. so here is the second volume of the Vivaldi Edition's complete recording of the chamber concertos and cantatas with L'Astrée,whose performances have already set new standards in this repertoire. (To mark the occasion, the first volume is at last reissued in a new presentation). As in the previous release in the series (with the mezzo-soprano Laura Polverelli), three concertos are here juxtaposed with three chamber cantatas, offering another chance to confirm the Prete rosso's inexhaustible inventiveness in these two genres, which gave him as much scope for instrumental and vocal virtuosity as his concertos with orchestra or his operas. In the concerto RV 100, we get a genuine dialogue between flute, violin, and bassoon, with the latter exploited for both its expressive range of colours and its great agility; in RV 92 and RV 108, it is the recorder's skill that is sorely tested. As to the cantatas, this time for soprano and continuo, they demand a soloist with faultless technique and a highly dramatic temperament: the almost hysterical outbursts, the acrobatic leaps, and the perilous series of top Cs in Geme l'onda are certainly not within the grasp of just any soprano! This is why L'Astrée have called on one of the most eminent Vivaldians of our day, the marvellous Gemma Bertagnolli, whose recent performances with Alessandrini and de Marchi have been universally acclaimed, and who achieves fresh triumphs here. ”

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01-03. Concerto RV108 in A minor
04-07. Cantata rv651 'Amor, hai vinto'
08-10. Concerto rv92 in d major
11. Cantata rv656
12. Cantata rv656
13. Cantata rv656
14. Concerto RV100 in F major
15. Concerto RV100 in F major
16. Concerto RV100 in F major

Concerti e Cantate da Camera III

With the help of a really lifelike recording – the instruments truly seemed to be in my listening room – the music just leaps off the page. The quicker movements all dance, where older and heavier bands were apt to make them slog, while in the dialogues between instruments the phrases really answer each other. In slow movements, on the other hand, the music is made to speak. Once again, it is notable – especially in the Largo of RV87 – how much more romantic this music sounds played with freedom by a small original instruments group than it ever did with larger bands who were trying to put on baroque manners.
In the three cantatas, Laura Polverelli has a splendidly rich timbre, so much so that I almost took her for a contralto; but later Vivaldi sends her up to heights we don’t ask of contraltos and she ascends them with ease. Her lower notes are so splendidly rich that I wish there had been more of them....I rejoice in the sheer life of all these performances...the music is all magnificent, Vivaldi at his richest.


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01-03. Concerto RV87 in C major
04-07. Cantata RV683 Amor, hai vinto
08-10. Concerto RV98 "tempesta di mare" in F major
11-14. Cantata RV680 Lungi dal vago volto
15-17. Concerto RV103 in G minor
18-20. Cantata RV682 Vengo a voi, luci adorate

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