Vivaldi: I concerti dell'addio - The Farewell Concertos (2015)

There are two distinctive features to this release on the Spanish label Glossa. First is the return to Vivaldi of the flamboyant Italian historical-performance violinist Fabio Biondi; he made his name with highly original Vivaldi recordings in the early 2000s, but has ventured into other territories since then with mixed results. His high-energy, high-contrast Vivaldi is always a pleasure to hear. Better still, it's applied here to some music to which it is unusually well suited, and furthermore to music that's been ... Read More

There are two distinctive features to this release on the Spanish label Glossa. First is the return to Vivaldi of the flamboyant Italian historical-performance violinist Fabio Biondi; he made his name with highly original Vivaldi recordings in the early 2000s, but has ventured into other territories since then with mixed results. His high-energy, high-contrast Vivaldi is always a pleasure to hear. Better still, it's applied here to some music to which it is unusually well suited, and furthermore to music that's been hitherto unknown. The six concertos on the program were part of a set compiled by a nobleman in what is now the Czech city of Brno; in 1740 it would have been German-speaking Brünn in the Habsburg empire. Vivaldi, at the end of his financial rope, had fled Italy for Habsburg Vienna in the hopes of finding an atmosphere more congenial to his music. He apparently composed these pieces shortly before his death. The Concerti dell'Addio (Concertos of Farewell) title is a misleading one; Vivaldi... Read Less

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