Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Improvisata: Sinfonie con titoli (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 53:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 09463634302| Recorded: 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 53:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 09463634302| Recorded: 2004
Leave it to Fabio Biondi to take a relatively "new" work of Antonio Vivaldi never before recorded and build something exciting and thoroughly relevant around it. Virgin Classics' Improvisata: Sinfonie con titoli features Vivaldi's plucky Sinfonia Improvisata, RV 802, a fragmentary work that was discovered only in 1999; this appears to be its first recording. As it lasts only three-and-a-half minutes, one could fill it out with other Vivaldi sinfonias and therefore duplicate dozens of other recordings. Instead, Biondi has taken account of the turbulent and highly pictorial character of the short Vivaldi work and has located a selection of similar pieces that complement it well. Most extraordinary among them is the sinfonia La tempesta di mare by mega-obscure Italian Carlo Monza and a cheerful, vibrant symphony by Giuseppe Demachi, La campane di Roma – decorative, highly programmatic pieces from the eighteenth century that have never seen the light of day.