/View.info/ Wait a minute! Vivaldi’s Seasons for recorder?…Didn’t this recorder suffer from “arangitis” (a chronic disease in which the musician arranges every possible piece for his own instrument)?
Eric Bosgraaf believes that if Vivaldi had not been forced to publish his concertos for the commercial Amsterdam edition in 1735 in a version for stringed instruments, he would undoubtedly have taken advantage of the richness of timbres of baroque wind instruments such as the recorder, for example. He offers us his personal reading of these masterpieces under the fiery accompaniment of string players from Cordevento: Zefira Valova, Ivan Iliev, Linda Manchevai and Zdenka Prohazkova, as well as Yavor Genov – lute and Alessandro Piano – harpsichord.
But why Bach on recorder?
1. The composer himself arranged his own works (cantatas, arias) to perform as a harpsichord soloist in Zimmermann’s café in Leipzig.
2. Bach is known to have known the recorder and used it in a number of his works. Perhaps he would have dedicated a solo repertoire if he had had an extraordinary recorder player…
3. Over the past 260 years, Bach’s concertos have been adapted for musette (French bagpipe), oboe, bassoon, trumpet, modern piano…
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Ensemble Cordevento with Eric Bosgraaf opens the Sixth Festival “The Art of the Baroque”
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