Vivaldi - Concerti per oboe, 2 oboi, archi e continuo | Tactus TC672248

Vivaldi - Concerti per oboe, 2 oboi, archi e continuo

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC672248

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd February 2009

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Among Vivaldi’s vast number of compositions, the concertos for oboe, strings and basso continuo raise more doubts than certainties. The first perplexities relate to their number. The most up-to-date catalogue compiled by Ryom lists twenty of them, to which can be added three others for two oboes, two for violin and oboe, one for oboe and bassoon, and eight “Per molti Istromenti”, in which the oboe is part of the concertino, but at least two of these works are considered spurious.

Vivaldi was unquestionably won over by the rich and creamy timbre and the remarkable technical and expressive possibilities of the oboe, an instrument which was by then established in orchestras and whose function had developed from a mere support of the strings to an increasingly important role as a soloist.

The first concertos for oboe were presumably written shortly after 1710, when Venice was still largely monopolized by music originating from countries north of the Alps. Profiting from the contribution of Tomaso Albinoni, whose concertos for oboe were the first collection by an Italian composer to be printed (in Venice, 1715), Vivaldi imposed a purely Italian style, based on unbridled vitality rich in virtuosic passages and fast movements, together with extended cantabile and unmistakably theatrical writing in the Andante sections.

Another clearly Vivaldian trait lies in a musical language that is seemingly idiomatic to the violin, with extremely long phrases requiring the performers to execute interminable passages while practically holding their breath.

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