Caterva Musica - L'Arte del Virtuoso Vol. 3 - Solo Concertos [CD]

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For their 25th anniversary, caterva musica has recorded virtuoso concertos for all instrumental groups in the ensemble. L'arte del virtuoso (The Art of the Virtuoso) is a four-part series released by MDG. The programme on Vol. 3 includes Franz Benda's dramatic flute concerto, lively chamber music by Telemann, Graun and Vivaldi, as well as a very special rarity: Johann Sebastian Bach's large-scale Sinfonia BWV 1045 with concertante violin.

One of the most amazing and most puzzling of Bach's compositions, Sinfonia was perhaps meant as an overture to a festive cantata which has been lost to time. Semiquaver figures run through all the parts in a triumphant eruption of sound. Virtuosic violin fireworks over suspended harmonic motion create an almost hypnotic atmosphere, not unlike minimal music.

Franz Benda and Johann Gottlieb Graun were able to do what Bach could not: For decades they were in the service of the art-loving King Frederick II of Prussia. Benda's flute concerto, with its stormy and dramatic character, illustrates the high level of the Potsdam court orchestra, as does the distinctive quartet in which Graun gave the viola da gamba a ludicrously demanding part.

Telemann's Hunting Overture provides an opulent and furious prelude that unfolds a striking effect, especially in MDG's three-dimensional reproduction. In the second movement of Vivaldi's quartet, oboe and flute embrace each other in an intimate love duet, prefaced with an unusual surprise as an anticipation of caterva musica's future projects.

G.P. Telemann: Overture in F Major, TWV 55: F3: I. Ouverture

II. Rondeau

III. Sarabande

IV. Menuet avec le Trio pour les Hautbois

V. La Badinerie

VI. Gigue

VII. Rejouissance - Trio pour les Hautbois

VIII. Fanfare

A. Vivaldi: Quartet for recorder, violin, oboe, bassoon and b.c.: I. Allegro

II. Largo

III. Allegro

J.G. Graun: Quartet in G Minor (Graun WV Av:XIV:10): I. Adagio

II. Allegro

III. Piu tosto Allegro

F. Benda: Concerto in E Minor for transverse flute: I. Allegro con brio

II. Adagio un poco Andante

III. Presto

J.S. Bach: Sinfonia BWV 1045

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
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