Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Tognetti, Australian Chamber Orchestra

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Release Date
March 10, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VIVALDI, ANTONIO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Australian Chamber Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Tognetti
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 10, 2015
    • UPC
      7318599921037
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2103
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    2. II. Largo e pianissimo sempre

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    3. III. Danza pastorale: Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    4. I. Allegro non moto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    5. II. Adagio - Presto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    6. III. Presto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    7. I. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    8. II. Adagio molto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    9. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    10. I. Allegro non molto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    11. II. Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    12. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    13. Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 226: II. Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    14. I. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti, Helena Rathbone, Satu Vänskä, Ike See, Timo-Veikko Valve

    15. II. Largo - Larghetto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti, Helena Rathbone, Satu Vänskä, Ike See, Timo-Veikko Valve

    16. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti, Helena Rathbone, Satu Vänskä, Ike See, Timo-Veikko Valve

    17. I. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    18. II. Largo e pianissimo sempre

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    19. III. Presto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    20. Concerto Grosso in D Major, RV 562, "Concerto per la solennita di S Lorenzo": II. Grave

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    21. I. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    22. II. Andante

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti

    23. III. Presto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Tognetti


1711 saw the publication of what was to become one of the most important musical collections of the first half of the 18th century: Antonio Vivaldi’s L’estro armonico (‘The Harmonic Fancy’). Scored for one, two, or four violin soloists, the twelve concertos in the set fuelled a burgeoning fashion for new Italian music in northern Europe, and were soon being avidly performed and enjoyed in major musical centres, inspiring younger composers including Bach, Handel and Telemann. Vivaldi’s set – represented here by the Concerto in B minor, RV 580 and Violin Concerto in A minor, RV 356 – established a vogue for a virtuosic and brilliant type of writing, with fast movements characterized as much by their propulsive basses as by conventional melodiousness and with central slow movements often exuding a mesmeric, almost ghostly calm. Fourteen years later another collection of concertos – Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (‘The Contest of Harmony and Invention’) – would secure Vivaldi’s reputation for eternity. The first four concertos of this collection form what has become one of the most widely spread classical compositions in the history of music: Le Quattro Stagioni. Countless violinists have recorded Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, not to mention the many arrangements of the pieces for other instruments. Now Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a team internationally recognized for its virtuosity, energy and individuality, has recorded their take on Vivaldi’s springtime birdsong, summer thunderstorm, autumn hunting and chattering teeth of icy winter. The programme also includes two typically Vivaldian slow movements, a Largo and a Grave, as well as a Sinfonia for strings originally intended as the overture of the opera La verità in cimento (‘Truth in contention’).