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Reviewer: Geoffrey Norris
The fusion of elegance, vivacity and taste in the playing of these Vivaldi concertos is a feature that warmly recommends itself and gives this recording an edge over others in a catalogue already stuffed with discs of the fertile Red Priest’s music. Against all the odds, Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante have found a new peg on which to hang this concerto grouping. This is not the successful, lauded Vivaldi of Venice but the downcast, virtually neglected Vivaldi of Vienna, the city in which he spent his dying months.
The album is aptly entitled ‘Farewell Concertos’, for they are among a batch that Vivaldi, just six weeks before his death in July 1741, signed over to the music-loving Vinciguerra VI, Count of Collalto. They survive in a collection in Brno. Vivaldi was able to summon up sensations of grief even in the concertos of his happier days, so it is perhaps fanciful to detect premonitions of death or a melancholy comment on his predicament in Austria in the Largo of the C major Concerto, RV189, but it is a movement of particular poignancy. Things perk up in the ensuing finale, which bristles with those lithe ideas and flashes of violin virtuosity that can make Vivaldi’s writing so exciting.
That is certainly the case here. Biondi has all the technical facility that the music demands but he and Europa Galante also possess a refined sense of phrasing and perspective, together with a judicious range of colour, touch, dynamics and rhythmic zest. |
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