Vivaldi | New Discoveriers

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• Argippo I.1
  

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VIVALDI NEW DISCOVERIES
World Premiere Recording
Naïve, february 2009

ROMINA BASSO, mezzosoprano
MODO ANTIQUO
Federico Maria Sardelli

A NEW SIDE OF VIVALDI

All the items included in this programme are new additions to the canon of Vivaldi’s works. Apart from their novelty, they form an attractive and varied conspectus of the composer’s activity.

Some – including works of considerable importance – have escaped previous discovery by being preserved in an anonymous source or even by being attributed falsely to a different composer.

Some of the pieces included in this ‘stocktaking’ of newly discovered Vivaldi works are fully comparable in quality and ambition to their counterparts in the relevant section of Vivaldi’s oeuvre, and there is no reason why they should not immediately take their rightful place among their peers.

The new discoveries present a new side of Vivaldi.

©MICHAEL TALBOT


PROGRAMME

Se lento ancora il fulmine, aria from Argippo [1733?], for mezzosoprano, strings and bc
[Allegro molto]

Concerto in g minor RV 578a for two violins, cello, strings and bc
Adagio e spiccato - Allegro - Largo e spiccato - Allegro

Sonata in G major RV 806 for Recorder and bc
Andante - Allegro - Largo - Allegro

Motet Vos invito, RV 811, for alto, strings and bc
Allegro assai - Recitativo - [Largo] - Presto

Sonata in D major RV for violin and bc
Andante - [Allegro] - Adagio - Allegro

Concerto in g minor, RV 812, for oboe, cello, strings and bc [from Harrach private collection in Rohrau; thanks to Prof. Paul Angerer]
Allegro - Largo - Allegro cantabile

Aria Se fide quanto belle RV 749.32 for mezzosoprano, strings and bc
[Vivace]

Sonata in D major RV 810 for violin and bc
Andante - Allegro - Largo - Allegro


ROMINA BASSO, mezzosoprano
MODO ANTIQUO
on period intruments
Federico Maria Sardelli

Soloists:
recorder
Federico Maria Sardelli
oboe
Paolo Pollastri
violin
Enrico Casazza
cello
Bettina Hoffmann

Orchestra:
violins
Enrico Casazza, Valerio Losito [soloist in RV 578a], Daniele Del Lungo, Isabella Bison,
Ana Liz Ojeda, Silvia Rinaldi, Lorenzo Biagini, Michio Isaij
altos
Pasquale Lepore, Pietro Meldolesi
cellos
Bettina Hoffmann, Renato Criscuolo
double-bass
Nicola Domeniconi
theorbe, guitar
Gian Luca Lastraioli
harpsichord
Giulia Nuti