9/1/2023 0 Comments Vivaldi operas naive![]() ![]() ![]() Some of them were recycled as oboe concertos – perhaps he should be remembered as the ‘Green Priest’ rather than the Red one? – but few of them would be known to the general music lover today.Īzzolini takes these scores by the scruff of the neck and gives them a damn good shaking. Vivaldi’s interest was possibly piqued through contact with musicians of the northern European courts, which resulted in a glut of concertos written from the 1720s onwards. Quite why Vivaldi favoured the bassoon so highly is a matter for conjecture, especially when there is no documented evidence to prove the instrument was played at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, the institution for which he wrote much of his music. Four other concertos have appeared on a couple of previous volumes of works for various instruments, three of them played by Sergio Azzolini, who is the featured soloist on this new disc. Sergio Azzolini/ L’Aura Soave Cremona (Naïve OP30496)Ĭonsidering Vivaldi wrote 39 concertos for the bassoon, more than any instrument other than the violin, Naïve has kept us waiting an awful long time for the first volume devoted to bassoon concertos in its Vivaldi Edition. ![]()
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