Vivaldi - The Baroque Gypsies / Maute, Ensemble Caprice

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Analekta
Release Date
May 15, 2007
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VIVALDI, ANTONIO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Caprice
    • PERFORMER
      Maute, Lariviere
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 15, 2007
    • UPC
      774204991227
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AN29912
    • LABEL
      Analekta
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Hungricus 15 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    2. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: C 256 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    3. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Iag Bari (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    4. I. Cadenza (by M. Maute)

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute

    5. II. Allegro non molto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute

    6. III. Adagio

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute

    7. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute

    8. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Hungaricus 25 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    9. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Hungaricus 23 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    10. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Hungricus 53 (cadenza by M. Maute) (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    11. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: C 106 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    12. I. Praambulum: Allegro (by M. Maute)

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute, Sophie Lariviere

    13. II. Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute, Sophie Lariviere

    14. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute, Sophie Lariviere

    15. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: C 206 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    16. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: C 207 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    17. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: C 208 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    18. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: C 345 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    19. I. Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Sophie Lariviere

    20. II. Presto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Sophie Lariviere

    21. III. Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Sophie Lariviere

    22. IV. Fantasmi

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Sophie Lariviere

    23. V. Il sonno

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Sophie Lariviere

    24. VI. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Sophie Lariviere

    25. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Praambulum I (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    26. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Pulcher (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    27. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Anglicus (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    28. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Ballet Doctoris Fausti ad Mensam (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    29. I. Adagio - Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute, Sophie Lariviere

    30. II. Cadence: Adagio (by M. Maute)

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute, Sophie Lariviere

    31. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

      Performer: Matthias Maute, Sophie Lariviere

    32. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: C 272 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    33. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: C 275 (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice

    34. Pièces gitanes, Collection Uhrovska 1730: Asztali Nota (arr. M. Maute for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice


As a virtuoso and composer, Vivaldi travelled widely, and it is likely that he encountered nomadic musicians during these excursions. One can also easily imagine how travellers arriving from Eastern European countries would perform their music along the Slavic Canal where Vivaldi taught for many years at an orphanage school. Telemann comments in one of his autobiographies that a skilled composer could gain enough musical inspiration to last a lifetime by listening to gypsy musicians. The obvious closeness to gypsy music of the motifs used in the opening tutti in the third movement of the late concerto RV 375 makes a link even more tempting to surmise. The ragged initial sixteenth notes, the syncopated rhythms, the abrupt dynamic contrasts and the pianissimo passages that appear are almost identical in the Uhrovska collection (1730) of gypsy music.

The Uhrovska collection (named for the town in Slovakia where it was found) is a fascinating document that provides a direct glimpse into the world of gypsy music. The approximately 350 melodies it contains were probably intended to be as comprehensive a collection of gypsy music as possible. Its multi-national character documents the extent to which the gypsies—and their music with them—travelled. Hungarian melodies stand next to Czech songs and the location of Uhrovska's discovery in Slovakia suggests further national influences.

It became obvious to us during this project that the undercurrent of kinship between these two different music styles is too insistent and that the rough and fresh gypsy music must have exerted a great fascination on a composer like Vivaldi. Although cause for speculation remains, we hope that the listener will be inclined to share our enthusiasm for this unusual musical encounter.

-- Matthias Maute

Tracks include 17 anonymous pieces from the Uhrovska collection of gypsy music as well as Vivaldi concertos RV 375, RV 533, RV 104, and P 81.