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Vivaldi: Concerti Per Fagotto
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Vivaldi: Concerti Per Fagotto

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Composer
VIVALDI, ANTONIO
Artist
Grazzi
Format
CD
Label
Arcana
Released
Aug 27, 2013
Catalog #
A365
UPC
3760195733653

About

According to Greek mythology, Zefiro was the tender and kind God of the Western Wind. In 1989, the oboists Alfredo Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi, and the bassoonist Alberto Grazzi, members of the most outstanding baroque orchestras, founded Zefiro, a versatile music group specialising in the eighteenth-century repertoire that gives particular prominence to wind instruments. Since then, Zefiro has performed at many major worldwide festivals and recorded 20 Cds, including the complete works for wind ensemble of W. A. Mozart, all virtuosic sonatas of J.D. Zelenka (Astrée), and three instalments of the distinguished Vivaldi Edition on Naïve. After a long-term collaboration with Sony Classical/Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, this new Vivaldi recording marks the beginning of an exclusive partnership of the Italian ensemble with Arcana, which will result in a true Zefiro series, characterised by its own artwork, focused on new releases but whose task will also be to make their discography still available. Antonio Vivaldi was (and has remained) the most productive composer of concertos for solo bassoon. Thirty-nine concertos for solo bassoon, strings and basso continuo by him have survived. As a group, they are noteworthy for their high musical quality, their stylistic maturity and their depth of feeling, a property shared with Vivaldi's concertos for the cello. Vivaldi shows perfect understanding of the mercurial temperament of the instrument, which is able in an instant to move from the comic to the tragic, from the melancholy to the joyful. An active player on the early music scene for the last 25 years, Alberto Grazzi is presenting here seven concertos from the enormous corpus of the Venetian composer. This selection, with 4 concertos in major and 3 in minor keys, represents Alberto Grazzi's personal choice in showing the expressive qualities of the bassoon in Vivaldi's world. This work is the result of a Alberto Grazzi's long-term practise as a baroque player, here magnificently supported by the Ensemble Zefiro.

Tracklist 21 tracks

  1. 1 I. Presto 02:24
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Presto
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  2. 2 II. Larghetto 02:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  3. 3 III. Allegro 02:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  4. 4 I. Allegro 03:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  5. 5 II. Andante quasi minuetto 01:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Andante quasi minuetto
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  6. 6 III. Allegro 03:17
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  7. 7 I. Allegro 03:40
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  8. 8 II. Largo 03:35
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  9. 9 III. Allegro 02:55
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  10. 10 I. Allegro 03:19
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  11. 11 II. Largo 03:52
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  12. 12 III. Allegro 03:02
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  13. 13 I. Allegro 03:01
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  14. 14 II. Largo 03:39
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  15. 15 III. Allegro 02:31
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  16. 16 I. Allegro 03:32
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  17. 17 II. Larghetto 04:19
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  18. 18 III. Allegro molto 02:26
    Track
    18
    Title
    III. Allegro molto
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  19. 19 I. Allegro non molto 03:19
    Track
    19
    Title
    I. Allegro non molto
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  20. 20 II. Andante molto 03:30
    Track
    20
    Title
    II. Andante molto
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro
  21. 21 III. Allegro 03:01
    Track
    21
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Alberto Grazzi
    Ensemble
    Zefiro