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Drawing on a hatful of tricks, Benedetti makes her violin sing and dance, rage and lament. Flirtatious exchanges between soloist and ensemble enhance the tonal and textural contrasts of the Dmajor... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th Jul 2021
Catalogue No: 4851891
Label: Decca
Length: 52 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

30th July 2021
International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Baroque Instrumental

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Geminiani, F: Concerto grosso after Corelli, No. 12 in D minor 'La Folia'

Work length11:28

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Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Benedetti Baroque Orchestra
Recorded: 2020-12-20
Recording Venue: Battersea Arts Centre, London

Theme & Var. I - VII

Track length3:22

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Var. VIII - XV

Track length4:25

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Var. XVI - XXIII

Track length3:41

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Vivaldi: Violin Concerto, RV 211 in D major

Work length14:09

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Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Benedetti Baroque Orchestra
Recorded: 2020-12-20
Recording Venue: Battersea Arts Centre, London

I. Allegro non molto

Track length5:35

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II. Larghetto

Track length3:45

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III. Allegro

Track length4:49

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Vivaldi: Violin Concerto RV257 in E flat major

Work length10:54

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Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Benedetti Baroque Orchestra
Recorded: 2020-12-20
Recording Venue: Battersea Arts Centre, London

I. Andante molto e quasi allegro

Track length4:49

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II. Adagio

Track length2:55

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III. Allegro

Track length3:10

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Vivaldi: Concerto in B minor for Violin RV386

Work length11:52

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Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Benedetti Baroque Orchestra
Recorded: 2020-12-20
Recording Venue: Battersea Arts Centre, London

I. Allegro ma poco

Track length4:45

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II. Larghetto

Track length3:46

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III. Allegro

Track length3:21

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Concerto in B flat major, RV 583

Work length3:55

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Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Benedetti Baroque Orchestra
Recorded: 2020-12-20
Recording Venue: Battersea Arts Centre, London

II. Andante

Track length3:55

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Recording of the Week, A double-bill of very different Baroque violin albums

30th July 2021

Nicola Benedetti makes a successful first venture into early music with a programme of Geminiani and Vivaldi, and Théotime Langlois de Swarte teams up with William Christie to bring some French Baroque gems to light.

Decca Classics is thrilled to announce a new Baroque album from Grammy award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti. This is the first album Benedetti has released on a period set-up including gut strings, and she is joined by a leading group of freelance baroque musicians, forming the Benedetti Baroque Orchestra for the very first time. The album features a selection of concerti by Vivaldi plus Geminiani’s incredible arrangement of Corelli’s ‘La Folia’, one of the oldest western classical themes which has been arranged by many composers over time, particularly in the baroque era. Geminiani was one of the greatest violinists of the era and Corelli was one of his teachers whilst growing up in Italy. Later when he moved to London, Geminiani reworked a number of Corelli’s works for local audiences including this arrangement of ‘La Folia’.

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September 2021

Drawing on a hatful of tricks, Benedetti makes her violin sing and dance, rage and lament. Flirtatious exchanges between soloist and ensemble enhance the tonal and textural contrasts of the Dmajor work’s opening movement, while Benedetti pours out its pathos-laden Larghetto in honeyed tones and sparkles in the finale’s virtuosic fireworks.

September 2021

a vibrant set of performances with all the energy of ‘Italia’ but now with an unmistakably period sound, her crack ensemble providing crisply attentive support...a distinctly impressive album, whether or not you’re a diehard Benedetti fan.

30th July 2021

Benedetti herself, playing on gut strings for the first time, shows herself a ready pupil of the early music experts she’s been working with; her sound, shorn of vibrato, is initially dry and almost choppy, though she subsequently proves equally capable of presenting her customary lyricism via this new technique.

8th August 2021

Benedetti digs deep into her strings, producing a raw, intense sound in Geminiani’s Concerto Grosso in D minor...and in three carefully chosen concertos from Vivaldi’s vast output…everything this artist does bristles with life, technical mastery and interpretive flair.

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