Categories:
Cart 0

Your cart is empty

Fabio Biondi|Vivaldi : I concerti dell'addio

Vivaldi : I concerti dell'addio

Fabio Biondi

Digital booklet

Available in
16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo

Unlimited Streaming

Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps

Start my trial period and start listening to this album

Enjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription

Subscribe

Enjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription

Download not available

There are two distinctive features to this release on the Spanish label Glossa. First is the return to Vivaldi of the flamboyant Italian historical-performance violinist Fabio Biondi; he made his name with highly original Vivaldi recordings in the early 2000s, but has ventured into other territories since then with mixed results. His high-energy, high-contrast Vivaldi is always a pleasure to hear. Better still, it's applied here to some music to which it is unusually well suited, and furthermore to music that's been hitherto unknown. The six concertos on the program were part of a set compiled by a nobleman in what is now the Czech city of Brno; in 1740 it would have been German-speaking Brünn in the Habsburg empire. Vivaldi, at the end of his financial rope, had fled Italy for Habsburg Vienna in the hopes of finding an atmosphere more congenial to his music. He apparently composed these pieces shortly before his death. The Concerti dell'Addio (Concertos of Farewell) title is a misleading one; Vivaldi wasn't planning on dying, and the concertos have no debilitated mood. But the works are dazzling fusions of styles, careening from high-level virtuosity to the new light galant style and making it all fit together. Biondi ramps up the spectacle with tempo shifts, continuo contrasts, and liberal ornamentation, and while his reading as usual might not be for everybody, it will make some feel as though they've heard something entirely new in Vivaldi. Glossa's sound is not really successful; it's miked very close up -- breathing and all -- for no good reason, and the church acoustic would not have been a match for the music in its own time.
© TiVo

More info

Vivaldi : I concerti dell'addio

Fabio Biondi

launch qobuz app I already downloaded Qobuz for Windows / MacOS Open

download qobuz app I have not downloaded Qobuz for Windows / MacOS yet Download the Qobuz app

You are currently listening to samples.

Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.

Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.

From $10.83/month

Violin Concerto in B Minor, RV 390 (Antonio Vivaldi)

1
I. Andante molto
00:01:01

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

2
II. Allegro non molto
00:05:16

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

3
III. Larghetto
00:02:36

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

4
IV. Allegro
00:03:41

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

Violin Concerto in E Minor, RV 273 (Antonio Vivaldi)

5
I. Allegro non molto
00:04:21

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

6
II. Largo
00:03:42

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

7
III. Allegro
00:03:43

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, RV 371 (Antonio Vivaldi)

8
I. Allegro ma poco
00:04:59

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

9
II. Larghetto
00:04:35

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

10
III. Allegro
00:03:57

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

Violin Concerto in C major, RV 189 (Antonio Vivaldi)

11
I. Larghetto
00:00:31

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

12
II. Allegro non molto e pianissimo
00:05:01

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

13
II. Largo
00:06:04

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

14
III. Allegro molto
00:04:14

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

Violin Concerto in B flat, RV 367 (Antonio Vivaldi)

15
I. Allegro ma poco poco
00:06:00

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

16
II. Andante ma poco
00:03:20

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

17
III. Allegro
00:03:54

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

Violin Concerto in F Major, RV 286, "Concerto per la solennita di San Lorenzo" (Antonio Vivaldi)

18
I. Largo molto e spiccato
00:00:29

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

19
II. (Allegro moderato)
00:04:45

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

20
II. Largo
00:02:55

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

21
III. Allegro non molto
00:04:43

Fabio Biondi, Performer - Europe Galante, Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer

2015 Glossa 2015 Glossa

Album review

There are two distinctive features to this release on the Spanish label Glossa. First is the return to Vivaldi of the flamboyant Italian historical-performance violinist Fabio Biondi; he made his name with highly original Vivaldi recordings in the early 2000s, but has ventured into other territories since then with mixed results. His high-energy, high-contrast Vivaldi is always a pleasure to hear. Better still, it's applied here to some music to which it is unusually well suited, and furthermore to music that's been hitherto unknown. The six concertos on the program were part of a set compiled by a nobleman in what is now the Czech city of Brno; in 1740 it would have been German-speaking Brünn in the Habsburg empire. Vivaldi, at the end of his financial rope, had fled Italy for Habsburg Vienna in the hopes of finding an atmosphere more congenial to his music. He apparently composed these pieces shortly before his death. The Concerti dell'Addio (Concertos of Farewell) title is a misleading one; Vivaldi wasn't planning on dying, and the concertos have no debilitated mood. But the works are dazzling fusions of styles, careening from high-level virtuosity to the new light galant style and making it all fit together. Biondi ramps up the spectacle with tempo shifts, continuo contrasts, and liberal ornamentation, and while his reading as usual might not be for everybody, it will make some feel as though they've heard something entirely new in Vivaldi. Glossa's sound is not really successful; it's miked very close up -- breathing and all -- for no good reason, and the church acoustic would not have been a match for the music in its own time.
© TiVo

About the album

Improve album information

Qobuz logo Why buy on Qobuz?

On sale now...

Keep Your Courage

Natalie Merchant

Keep Your Courage Natalie Merchant

The Köln Concert (Live at the Opera, Köln, 1975)

Keith Jarrett

You're the One

Rhiannon Giddens

You're the One Rhiannon Giddens

Owl Song

Ambrose Akinmusire

Owl Song Ambrose Akinmusire
More on Qobuz
By Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi : Les quatre saisons

Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Largo from Violin Concerto RV 207

Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Concerti

Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Concerti Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Concerti per violino XI 'Per Anna Maria'

Fabio Biondi

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas

Fabio Biondi

Playlists

You may also like...

Milstein plays Violin Concertos

Nathan Milstein

Vivaldi : Concerti per due violini

Giuliano Carmignola - Amandine Beyer

Vivaldi : Concerti per due violini Giuliano Carmignola - Amandine Beyer

Mozart : Violin Concertos

Isabelle Faust

Mozart : Violin Concertos Isabelle Faust

Bach : Violin Concertos

Isabelle Faust

Bach : Violin Concertos Isabelle Faust

Vivaldi: Concerti per violino X 'Intorno a Pisendel'

Julien Chauvin