Vivaldi: Oboe Sonatas

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Composers: Antonio Vivaldi
Artist: Ensemble J.M. Anciuti , Paolo Pollastri baroque (oboe), Gaetano Nasillo (cello), Alberto Guerra (baroque bassoon), Giovanna Losco (harpsichord)

This addition to Brilliant Classics’ ever-growing recorded catalogue of music by the asthmatic ‘Red Priest’ of Venice, Antonio Vivaldi, is of oboe sonatas, played (as are most of the recordings in that catalogue) by an Italian ensemble with full awareness of the latest scholarly research into Vivaldi’s manuscripts and performing styles, and on period instruments, soaked in an appreciation of how most stylishly to realise the music of the Italian Baroque.

The oboist himself, Paolo Pollastri, is oboist with Rome’s Orchestra nazionale di Santa Cecilia, which works with many of the world’s great conductors; he has also contributed fine booklet notes to this release. So both technical and scholarly address are not lacking for this album of sprightly chamber music, which was composed not for the usual crowd of orphaned prodigies at the Ospedale della Pietà, but more likely for travelling virtuosi who made Venice a stop on their itinerary. Consequently the manuscripts for the sonatas here are scattered far and wide, from Cambridge to Dresden. Pollastri also includes an apocryphal work, once attributed to Vivaldi but now ascribed to the Frenchman de Chédeville, for its smooth Francophone style and pastoral idiom.

00:00:00 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, FXIII, RV 28: I. [Largo]
00:04:09 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, FXIII, RV 28: II. [Allegro]
00:06:21 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, FXIII, RV 28: III. Largo
00:09:18 Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, FXIII, RV 28: IV. Allegro
00:11:32 Sonata No. 3 in C, FXV, RV 48: I. Affettuoso
00:15:04 Sonata No. 3 in C, FXV, RV 48: II. Allegro assai
00:17:15 Sonata No. 3 in C, FXV, RV 48: III. Larghetto
00:19:15 Sonata No. 3 in C, FXV, RV 48: IV. Allegro
00:21:28 Sonata No. 16 in B-Flat, FXII, RV 34: I. Adagio
00:22:56 Sonata No. 16 in B-Flat, FXII, RV 34: II. Allegro
00:25:16 Sonata No. 16 in B-Flat, FXII, RV 34: III. Largo
00:26:55 Sonata No. 16 in B-Flat, FXII, RV 34: IV. Allegro
00:29:10 Sonata No. 9 in G Minor, FXV, RV 51: I. Largo
00:32:37 Sonata No. 9 in G Minor, FXV, RV 51: II. Allegro
00:34:23 Sonata No. 9 in G Minor, FXV, RV 51: III. Andante
00:36:31 Sonata No. 9 in G Minor, FXV, RV 51: IV. Allegro
00:37:50 Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, FXV, RV 53: I. Adagio
00:40:28 Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, FXV, RV 53: II. Allegro
00:42:42 Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, FXV, RV 53: III. Andante
00:46:48 Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, FXV, RV 53: IV. Allegro
00:49:41 Sonata No. 10 in G Minor, FXVI, RV 58, from Il pastor fido Op.13 No.6 by Chédeville, once attributed to Vivaldi: I. Vivace
00:51:00 Sonata No. 10 in G Minor, FXVI, RV 58, from Il pastor fido Op.13 No.6 by Chédeville, once attributed to Vivaldi: II. Fuga da Cappella (Alla breve)
00:53:00 Sonata No. 10 in G Minor, FXVI, RV 58, from Il pastor fido Op.13 No.6 by Chédeville, once attributed to Vivaldi: III. Largo
00:54:20 Sonata No. 10 in G Minor, FXVI, RV 58, from Il pastor fido Op.13 No.6 by Chédeville, once attributed to Vivaldi: IV. Allegro ma non presto