Vivaldi: La Pastorella, Concertos in G Minor, etc
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La Pastorella, Concertos in G Minor, etc
Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd
Catalogue No: METCD 1061
Discs: 1
La Pastorella, Concertos in G Minor, etc
Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd
Catalogue No: METCD 1061
Discs: 1
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Nowadays, we are very familiar with the idea of a chamber concerto – a work that reproduces the form and style of a conventional orchestral concerto in a chamber-music medium. At the time, soon after 1710, when Vivaldi invented the genre, however, the concept must have seemed a contradiction in terms. The whole point of a concerto – the single feature that marked it off most sharply from its parent genre, the sonata – had been its suitability for performance by an orchestra in the modern sense, with several players (except, possibly, for the chosen soloists) assigned to each part. However, Vivaldi had the imagination and the acumen to see that the novel concerto style, which allowed players to demonstrate their virtuosity, and the associated musical forms, in whose introduction he had taken a major role, could be transferred successfully to a small group of only three to six players. This required from the musicians a very high degree of flexibility. One moment, an instrument would be given a solo; the next, it would combine with its companions to produce the equivalent of an orchestral ‘tutti’.