Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto

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Steger's virtuosity is, from a listener's viewpoint and indeed from his own, breathtaking, and he loses no opportunity in demonstrating it. For my taste, though, there is too much gimmickry in... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2014
Catalogue No: HMC902190
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 67 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

December 2014

Editor's Choice

Vivaldi: Concerto in G Major per flautino, archi e basso continuo, RV 443

Work length9:54

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I. [Allegro]

Track length3:18

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II. (Largo)

Track length4:32

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III. Allegro molto

Track length2:04

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Vivaldi: Flute Concerto, Op. 10 No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 'La notte'

Work length8:32

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I. Largo

Track length2:08

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II. Fantasmi - Presto - Largo

Track length1:52

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III. Presto

Track length0:46

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IV. Il Sonno - Largo tutti gl'stromenti sordini

Track length1:56

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V. Allegro

Track length1:50

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Vivaldi: Concerto 'La pastorella' in D major per flauto, oboe, violino, fagotto e basso continuo, RV 95

Work length9:25

$3.00

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I. Allegro

Track length3:23

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II. Largo

Track length3:24

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III. Allegro

Track length2:38

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Vivaldi: Concerto in D Minor per due flauti, due oboe, due violini, fagotto, archi e basso continuo, RV 566

Work length7:27

$3.00

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I. Allegro assai

Track length2:10

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II. Largo

Track length2:32

$1.00

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III. Allegro

Track length2:45

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Vivaldi: Concerto in E flat Major per flauto, archi e basso continuo, RV 375

Work length12:39

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I. Allegro non molto

Track length4:57

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II. Largo

Track length4:01

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III. Allegro

Track length3:41

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Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, RV 103

Work length9:42

$3.00

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I. Allegro ma cantabile

Track length4:14

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II. Largo

Track length3:45

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III. Allegro non molto

Track length1:43

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Vivaldi: Concerto 'Il gardellino' in D Major per flauto, oboe, violino, fagotto e basso continuo, RV 90

Work length10:19

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I. Allegro

Track length4:14

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II. Largo

Track length3:08

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III. Allegro

Track length2:57

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"The music of Antonio Vivaldi radiates vital energy, celebrates affective states at their most intimate, artfully mimics natural phenomena, and tells stories full of blazing colours, heady fragrances, humour, imagination, exuberance, tenderness, and melancholy. It is a joy, a challenge and a privilege for me, after many Vivaldian experiences on the concert platform, to present this music on record. Fortunately for us, Vivaldi left us a magnificent repertory not only for violin, but also for the recorder. In addition to using it in many other musical genres, he called on the 'flauto' as a soloist in different timbral groupings and instrumental combinations in some twenty concertos, and raised the instrument and its expression to a new dimension. I would like to present the concerti per flauto in their original scoring for wind and orchestra, a brilliant ensemble concerto (concerto con molti stromenti) and an effervescent flautino concerto as I think they were conceived and may have sounded three hundred years ago. But I also wanted to try something new, and so I arranged for the flauto, a late work of Vivaldi, the Violin Concerto RV 375, which represents the new galant, singing style, no longer designed for the clear articulation of the recorder. Some arpeggios have been modified by analogy with the typical idiom of the maestro’s writing for recorder, and the upward transposition of a fourth makes the work sound warm and ethereal in the key of E flat major. Here the solo diva illuminates all the rich invention that is implied and expressed in Vivaldi’s late style. What hidden treasures for the recorder lie hidden in these late works; what a pity that Vivaldi himself did not want to bring them out; but how lucky we are that the music of the Prete Rosso has so much to offer us! Grazie, Signor Vivaldi!" Maurice Steger

Reviews

March 2015

Steger's virtuosity is, from a listener's viewpoint and indeed from his own, breathtaking, and he loses no opportunity in demonstrating it. For my taste, though, there is too much gimmickry in his realisations of the music...it is Steger's violin concerto arrangement that comes off most convincingly.

Early Music Review December 2014

Steger does play incredibly fast, with a firework display of stunning articulation …I’d certainly recommend buying this one.

February 2015

quite wonderful, with Steger’s phrasing and articulation balancing the meditative and the dance-like…it’s a credit to Meyer’s artistry that what comes to the fore is not so much his considerable technical gifts but a shimmering, shifting tonal and timbral palette that’s equally a credit to Fasolis and I Barocchisti’s stylish playing.

23rd December 2014

Steger revels in complex ornamentation, virtuoso high-speed articulation and as much contrast as can be mustered from the recorder…Spectacular virtuosity can become tiresome if not supported by superlative musicianship, and Maurice Steger is one of those performers you could imagine acquiring the legendary status of a Paganini were he to have been an exponent in a bygone era.

Audiophile Audition 20th November 2014

This wonderful compilation will find its most appreciative audience in recorder enthusiasts or fans of Vivaldi. However, I found the whole collection delightful, with outstanding, dedicated performances and excellent sound quality.

Classical Music January 2015

Boy can Steger play the recorder! This is high-octane playing, matched by sensational playing from I Barocchisti.

24th October 2014

Vivaldi’s concertos for recorders are works of rare theatricality … The Swiss recorder player Maurice Steger rings the changes in seven demanding concertos … The brio and élan of the playing are so unfailingly infectious that you may find it hard to listen without a smile on your face.

Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto

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