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Vivaldi: Late Violin Concertos
"Sony has a winner with this baroque fiddler, Carmignola. He's a good
looking guy -- a tall, dark, bearded Italian; what's not to like?--
and he plays an equally sexy baroque violin. If Carmignola and Marcon
had been around in the '60s, Vivaldi wouldn't have got that
reputation for writing 'wallpaper music.'
"Every movement of these six concertos has a different color, mood,
tempo or other distinguishing characteristic. The playing is so easy,
so musical, so sensual that you have to keep reminding yourself that
this enchanting stuff was once called 'hippie musak.'"
---By T. HASHIMOTO, Special to The Examiner
For this new recording, Marcon and Carmignola have selected six more
concertos for violin and orchestra from the composer's unpublished works.
They include the Concerto in B Minor, RV 386; Concerto in D Minor, RV 235;
Concerto in F Major, RV 298; Concerto in E-Flat Major, RV 258; Concerto in
B Minor, RV 398; and Concerto in E-Flat Major, RV 251.
The technical
limitations of the baroque instruments do not hamper Carmignola's ability
to play expressively or with a wide coloristic palette. The continuo, led
by Marcon at the harpsichord or organ, also offers robust variety in its
textures and its improvisations. Featuring the
Venice Baroque Orchestra.
Bach:
Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Baroque like you've never heard it before. Carmignola returns
with Andrea Marcon on this 2 CD set of Bach Sonatas for Violin
& Harpsichord. Together these two demonstrate that Bach sonatas
remain as fresh in the twenty-first century as they were in the
eighteenth. In stores everywhere!!
Vivaldi: Late Concertos
"...his playing is everything one wants from a Baroque violin
soloist: fleet, well tuned and shapely."
-- NY Times
"As sharply focused as any Four Seasons in the catalogue
and better played than most"
"Carmignola himself plays with immense brillance"
-- Gramophone
"...a new star in the firmament of period performance practitioners...the
man oozes personality...wonderfully imaginative...Carmignola et
al. realize Vivaldi's vision more vividly than I had ever heard
before."
-- American Record Guide
"You really haven't heard the heart and soul of this music
until you hear this" -- ClassicsToday.com
Six Late Vivaldi Concertos Get World-Premiere Recordings From
Baroque Violinist Giuliano Carmignola & The Venice
Baroque Orchestra, Led By Andrea Marcon, On Their New Sony
Classical Disc. In stores everywhere..
Press reaction to the label debut last Fall of the brilliant baroque
violinist Giuliano Carmignola and the Venice Baroque Orchestra
performing Vivaldi Four
Seasons and never-before-recorded Vivaldi violin concertos:
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Giuliano Carmignola's
The Four Seasons features
the world premiere recordings of three Vivaldi concertos. Carmignola
is joined on the recording by the Venice
Baroque Orchestra conducted by Andrea Marcon. The
Four Seasons is a work close to all these performers, and this
latest interpretation seeks to reflect what Vivaldi specifically depicts,
the changing atmosphere in Venice through the cycle of the seasons.
"To be a true performer of The Four Seasons, you must be like an
actor interpreting the text," Andrea Marcon says. Carmignola adds,
"There are new ideas in the solo parts as well as in the treatment
of the basso continuo, which have matured after our many performances
together." Album in stores everywhere.
"...this is the most impressive Four Seasons performance... ever heard on a
recording... you haven't heard the heart and soul of this music until you hear
this."
-- ClassicsToday.com
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