Antonio Vivaldi's all-girl orchestra at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, where illegitimate daughters of the aristocracy were stashed, contained some 70 members. Existing images of the orchestra show several dozen players, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who talked his way past the curtain behind which the girls played in concert, clearly reported several names as if they were part of a larger group. For those who still wish to believe that an orchestra of six, such as the one featured here by the ensemble L'arte dell'Arco, ...
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Antonio Vivaldi's all-girl orchestra at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, where illegitimate daughters of the aristocracy were stashed, contained some 70 members. Existing images of the orchestra show several dozen players, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who talked his way past the curtain behind which the girls played in concert, clearly reported several names as if they were part of a larger group. For those who still wish to believe that an orchestra of six, such as the one featured here by the ensemble L'arte dell'Arco, then consider this release. Advantages include an assortment of typically adventurous concertos featuring the lute or mandolin, clear engineering rendition of these hard-to-record instruments from the budget Dutch label Brilliant, and the presence of fine Baroque archlute playing by Diego Cantalupi. All these elements cohere in the Concerto in D major, RV 93, more typically played on a mandolin, but trading it off to another plucked instrument is justifiable. The central slow movement...
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