Giuliano Carmignola & Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
Vivaldi: Concerti della Natura,Erato, 2000 Get it from Amazon.com,
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(1678-1741) had largely been rediscovered in our times thanks to the Italian
composer Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973). He wrote about Vivaldi's
concerti that their titles "imply not a program but rather an exquisitely
poetic vision, sometimes painterly but never picturesque." The seven
concerti La Tempesta di Mare, La Notte, Il Gardellino, La
Caccia, Il Rosignuolo, La Pastorella and Alla Rustica
have now been recorded by the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca together with
Giuliano Carmignola (violin) under the title Concerti della Natura.
Antonio Fava (violin) of the Sonatori has put together an anthology that they
interpret in an outstanding way - as they have done before e.g. with their
widely acclaimed Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons)
composed by Vivaldi and released in 1997. The Concerti della
Natura have been recorded on historic instruments and tribute is paid to the
performance practice of the period. Among the poetic visions is La Tempesta
di Mare (The Storm at Sea), composed by Vivaldi in 1716/17 and first
printed in 1725. The concerto belongs to the genre of the nature-symphony. It
is an imitation of a storm, but in a theatrical exaggeration, as Giorgio Fava
writes. Concerti della Natura is a Vivaldi-performance on the highest
level and a real joy to listen to.
Violinist Giuliano Carmignola was born in Treviso, Italy. He began his
studies at the age of five with his father, Antonio. He continued later with
Luigi Ferro, Nathan Milstein and Henryk Szering. Guliano Carmignola began his
career as a soloist in the 1970s, working together with leading orchestras and
directors such as Claudio Abbado, Peter Maag, Eliahu Inbal and Giuseppe
Sinopoli. "His work with the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca has reawakened
his interest in early music and inspired more critical examination of the
baroque repertoire in the light of new discoveries about the instruments and
performance practice of the period. Giuliano Carmignola is now considered one
of the leading exponents of eigtheenth century Italian Violin music
[...]." The Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca were founded in Treviso, Italy,
in 1983. They concentrate on the music of the Venetian masters and on Italian
music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Their CDs (The Four Seasons, Le
Humane Passioni, Concerti per le Solennità) have won several
prestigious awards, such as the Diapson d'or de l'Année in 1996.
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