A Venetian Journey
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A Venetian Journey
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, with Xenia Löffler (baroque oboe) - Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti - Concerto Palatino
[ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 18 January 2019
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From the late Renaissance until the middle of the eighteenth century, Venice was the scene of unrivalled musical splendour, encompassing the magnificent ceremonial music heard at Saint Mark's Basilica and the virtuoso music-making at the charitable institutions known as the Ospedali. This box set provides a traversal of key instrumental genres of the period when La Serenissima was a welcoming destination for musical innovators whose names are synonymous with virtuosity. An intoxicating excursion!
"Here, in all its radiant apparel, is the splendour of Venice's golden age...Loffler is a fine performer with a rounded, mellow tone and remarkable dexterity...a captivating musical portrait of La Serenissima, whose distinctive colours and rhythmic energy suffuse this disc." BBC Music Five Stars [Venice: Golden Age]
"While on paper there's obvious common ground - Vivaldian sequences, dazzling arpeggios across the strings, languid aria-like slow movements - when imbued with the intensity and imagination of Beyer and Gli Incogniti these emerge as a constant stream of new colours, emotions and effects…forget the cheap jibes; Vivaldi was a supreme master of musical invention, as this recording triumphantly demonstrates" BBC Music Five Stars [Teatro alla moda]
"As might be expected, Concerto Palatino are well up to the challenges. Highly recommended for specialists and newcomers alike" Gramophone [Sonate e Canzoni]
Tracks:
CD1: Concerto
L'Age d'Or Venetian
Venice: The Golden Age
Works by Antonio Vivaldi, GIovanni Porta, Alessandro Marcello, Carlo Tessarini, Uri Rom
Xenia Loffler, baroque oboe
Georg Kallweit, solo violin & concertmaster
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
CD2: "Teatro alla moda"
Antonio Vivaldi:
Sinfonia de "L'Olimpiade" RV 725
Violin Concertos RV 282, 391, 228, 314a, 323, 322, 313
Ballo Primo de "Arsilda Regina di Ponto" RV 700
Gli Incogniti
Amandine Beyer
CD3: Sonate e Canzoni
Giovanni Gabrieli
Concerto Palatino
Bruce Dickey & Charles Toet, conducting
