MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm Halfspeed
CONDITION sealed
COVER Gatefold
CONDITION COVER M mint
SERIALNUMBER No
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo
COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE --
Gyorgy Bognar - cello
Nikolaus von Bülow - cello
Hans Joachim Dann - viola
Ariadne Daskalakis - conductor, violin
Ulrike Eickenbusch - cello
Adriana Coines Escriche - violin
Adrien Iliescu - violin
Onur Kestel - violin
Satoko Koike - violin
Malgorzata Krzyminska - violin
Wolfgang Kussmaul - violin
Kamila Maslowska - viola
Paul Pesthy - viola
Sini-Maaria Simonen - violin
Klaus von Niswandt - violin
Emanuel Wieck - viola
Renger Woelderink - double bass
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
ANTONIO LUCIO VIVALDI (1678 - 1741)
concerto in a minor for 2 violins and orchestra rv 522
allegro - 3:28
larghetto e spiritoso - 3:08
allegro - 3:10
concerto in g minor for 2 violoncellos and orchestra rv 531
allegro - 3:11
largo - 4:15
allegro - 3:05
concerto in f major for 3 violins and orchestra rv 551
(allegro) - 4:25
andante - 2:13
(allegro) - 3:08
concerto in b flat major for violin violoncello and orchestra rv 547
allegro (moderato) - 4:05
andante - 1:51
allegro molto - 2:54
In the 18th century, long before any quota agreement or gender studies had taken place, a major part of Venice’s musical life lay in the hands of four local orphanages for girls
In 1703, Vivaldi took on the position as conductor, violinist and composer at one of these homes, the Ospedale della Pietà
There he wrote works that are among the very best in music literature due to their inventiveness and artistic demands upon the musicians
As such, one can well imagine just how extraordinarily talented the young girls were
A notion of the fine compositions that floated through the city of canals 300 years ago is given by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in a selection taken from a collection of 12 violin concertos known as L’estro armonico, op. 3
The animated dialogue among the strings takes place on several levels: for example, the leading parts not only concertise with and against one another but also after one another, so that the characteristic art of performance of each individual soloist is clearly to be discerned
And because no one knows how Vivaldi’s girl orchestra would have sounded, anyone listening to this recording can let his imagination run riot as to how it could have been
It goes without saying that the Tacet team have pulled out all the stops with regard to technical matters in order to achieve the best possible analogue sound
RECORDING 2012 at Evangelical Church Reutlingen-Gönningen Germany
ENGINEERING Andreas Spreer
LABEL Tacet
MASTERING Andreas Spreer
RELEASED May 2015
AVERAGE RATING 4 ½ Stars out of 5
PRESSING by Pallas
MADE IN Germany
STYLE Classic / Chamber Music
AVAILABLE as long as inventory
