![]() ![]() Gli Incogniti relish every minute, hurling themselves into the fray with gleeful abandon and scintillating bravado. Take the ear-tweaking spatial effects of Concerto for Violin and Oboe in G Minor, RV 576 (Tracks 12-14), or the uproarious hunting calls and onomatopoeic birdsong of the Concerto in F Major, RV 572 (Tracks 21-23), or even the Flute Concerto in E Minor, RV 432 (Tracks 4-5), in which the orchestra falls away entirely, leaving the flute soloist to improvise the second movement over a bassline. The album borrows its title from a concerto for multiple players called Il Mondo al rovescio (“The World Turned Upside Down”), in which the lowest instruments can freely become the highest and vice versa, and so nothing can be taken for granted. Album DescriptionVivaldi’s exuberant invention marks him out as the finest Venetian composer of the 18th century, as is evidenced by this invigorating collection of eight concertos from no-holds-barred period-instrument band Gli Incogniti, directed by Amandine Beyer. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. ![]() It may be a bit far out, but this is a fresh Vivaldi disc in every way. In the same time, she wrote a master dissertation on K. At the age of 15, she was admitted in the Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique de Paris. The Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 372, "Per Signora Chiara," and Violin Concerto in B minor, RV 390, are late works that contribute anew to the understanding of how much Vivaldi contributed to the forerunners of Classicism. Amandine Beyer (Violin) The French violinst, Amandine Beyer, began studying music Aix-en-Provence at the age of 4: recorder, then violin in Aurlia Spadaro’s class. One and possibly more of these works were written for Vivaldi's orchestra of illegitimate girls at the Ospedale della Pietà, and indeed the entire disc is easy to imagine in performance by that presumably small group. ![]() The Four Seasons are balanced with other concertos that are quite rare, two of them world premieres. There are, however, enough startling choices, like the heavily plucked and much-faster-than-Largo central movement of the "Winter" concerto (track 18), that the disc may be more to the tastes of the adventurous than otherwise sample extensively and decide. That works quite well with the Four Seasons concertos, which are rendered in a colorful enough way that they evoke many of the images in Vivaldi's accompanying printed sonnets (which would have been a profitable inclusion in the booklet). The overall feel is light and agile Beyer doesn't so much push the tempo (although there's a little of that) as imbue the solo lines with maximum variety, creating a fantasy-like feel. In her own words, Beyer seeks "lightweight forces and freedom of phrasing." The group is small, with microphones put down right in the middle, and you hear lots of internal lines and interplay rather than contrast between orchestra and soloist. Her version, with the Italian historical-instrument group Gli Incogniti (who are not quite as unknown as all that), is as strikingly revisionist as the various turbo-powered, operatic Vivaldi recordings that began coming out of Italy in the 1990s, but it is different in flavor. Buy the album Starting at 13.99€ĭirector and violinist Amandine Beyer acknowledges in her booklet notes for this disc that the world may not seem to need another recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, but then she tops the bar she has set up by delivering an entirely distinctive reading of the work. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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