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Avi Avital: Vivaldi
Avi Avital (mandolin), with Mahan Esfahani & Ophira Zakai, with Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Avital's fluent technique helps - holding notes for absolutely their full length, and with smooth shifts between hand-positions...Esfahani, guest continuo player, is strikingly inventive as...
Avi Avital: Vivaldi
Avi Avital (mandolin), with Mahan Esfahani & Ophira Zakai, with Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
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Avital's fluent technique helps - holding notes for absolutely their full length, and with smooth shifts between hand-positions...Esfahani, guest continuo player, is strikingly inventive as...
About
Avi Avital re-imagines the sounds of Venice in this vivid homage to the most beloved composer of the Italian Baroque, Antonio Vivaldi. After his introduction with BACH and the colorful, contrasting exploration of world music on BETWEEN WORLDS, on this album Avi presents four popular Vivaldi concerti with the great Venice Baroque Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto, the Lute Concerto (with its famous second movement), “Summer” from the Four Seasons, and the A minor Violin Concerto (familiar to violin students everywhere).
Interspersed with these familiar concerti are two authentic, 18th Century Venetian Gondolier songs, performed by Juan Diego Flórez, accompanied by Avi on mandolin; as well as the Trio Sonata in C major with DG’s new signing Mahan Esfahani and Ophira Zakai. The album was recorded in the Veneto region, the album is both musically authentic and commercially accessible.
Contents and tracklist
- Avi Avital (mandolin), Venice Baroque Orchestra (chamberorchestra)
- Recorded: 2014-10-03
- Recording Venue: Teatro delle voci, Treviso
- Avi Avital (mandolin), Venice Baroque Orchestra (chamberorchestra)
- Recorded: 2014-10-03
- Recording Venue: Teatro delle voci, Treviso
- Avi Avital (mandolin), Venice Baroque Orchestra (chamberorchestra)
- Recorded: 2014-10-03
- Recording Venue: Teatro delle voci, Treviso
- Avi Avital (mandolin), Venice Baroque Orchestra (chamberorchestra)
- Recorded: 2014-10-03
- Recording Venue: Teatro delle voci, Treviso
- Avi Avital (mandolin), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Ophira Zakai (lute), Patrick Sepec (cello)
- Recorded: 2015
- Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
- Avi Avital (mandolin), Venice Baroque Orchestra (chamberorchestra)
- Recorded: 2014-10-03
- Recording Venue: Teatro delle voci, Treviso
- Avi Avital (mandolin), Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Ivano Zanenghi (lute), Daniele Bovo (cello), Lorenzo Feder (harpsichord), Fabio Tricomi (guitar)
- Recorded: 2014-10-03
- Recording Venue: Teatro delle voci, Treviso
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The Miraculous Mandolin
26th Mar 2015
David talks to Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital about his new solo album, Vivaldi.
Awards and reviews
Awards Issue 2015
Avital's fluent technique helps - holding notes for absolutely their full length, and with smooth shifts between hand-positions...Esfahani, guest continuo player, is strikingly inventive as he plays through held written chords at cadences. A gondola song with tenor Juan Diego Flórez provides a delightfully contrasting ending to the programme.
5th April 2015
Avital brings spark, dexterity and his signature finesse to [the] transcriptions...While the plethora of discs of Vivaldi’s music might make us wonder at times if we have already heard enough, Avital breathes captivating new life and interpretative imagination into it.
