Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell - Vivaldi & Friends: La Folia (Madness) & Other Concertos (2010)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: June 28, 2025

On 'Vivaldi and Friends', Apollo’s Fire, directed by Jeannette Sorrell, serve up an album of baroque concertos with a twist, just ahead of their UK debut at London’s Wigmore Hall in November.
The Cleveland-based baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire, with their founder/ director Jeannette Sorrell, has made an indelible impression on the international music market since launching on Avie with recordings of Bach, Mozart and Monteverdi. Vivaldi and Friends is a presentation of concertos by the Red Priest with a twist: two authentic Vivaldi Concertos – one for four violins, the other for two cellos – are interspersed with J. S. Bach’s transcript ion of Vivaldi’s A minor concerto for four harpsichords, and Jeannette Sorrell’s own transcription of ‘Summer’ from the ever-popular Four Seasons. Sorrell’s arrangement mirrors the widespread baroque practice of transcribing violin works for keyboard. In her unique version, she performs the original violin parts on the harpsichord.
The album ends with an enigmatic Tango Concerto by contemporary composer René Duchiffre, written in the idiom of Bach and Vivaldi for the unusual combination of two violas da gamba, and instrument not typically given the spotlight in baroque concertos and to the composer’s mind was unjustly neglected. The use of the Tango, a 20th-century dance form, is a nod to the characteristic use of dance forms during the baroque era.

AllMusic

Track List:

VIVALDI La Folia (Madness)
1. Concerto grosso, after the Sonata Op. 1 no. 12, arr. Jeannette Sorrell
Cynthia Roberts & Julie Andrijeski, solo violins
VIVALDI Concerto in b minor for Four Violins, Op. 3, No. 10/RV 580
Cynthia Roberts, Emlyn Ngai, Naomi Guy, Min-Young Kim, solo violins
2. Allegro
3. Largo
4. Allegro
VIVALDI Concerto “L’Estate” (“Summer”), Op. 8, No. 2/RV 315 from Le Quattro Stagione (The Four Seasons)
arr. Jeannette Sorrell
Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord
5. Allegro non molto–Allegro
6. Adagio
7. Presto: Tempo impetuoso d’Estate
VIVALDI Concerto in g minor for Two Cellos, RV531
René Schiffer & Susie Napper, solo cellos
8. Allegro
9. Largo
10. Allegro
BACH (trans. from Vivaldi) Concerto in a minor for Four Harpsichords, BWV 1065
Jeannette Sorrell, Michael Sponseller, Janina Ceaser, Paul Jenkins, harpsichords
11. [Allegro]
12. Largo
13. Allegro
DUCHIFFRE Concerto in d minor for Two Violas da Gamba (“Tango”)
René Schiffer & Ann Marie Morgan, solo cellos
14. Allegro ostinato
15. Adagio morganesco
16. Cadenza abrupta
17. Tempo di Tango

Performers:
Apollo’s Fire
Jeanette Sorrell (harpsichord & conductor)

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