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Vivaldi's artistic world
was very much created under the impressions of majestic beauty of
palaces and temples of Venice, of the rich colours of the canvases
of the Venician painters,of colourful and bright carnivals, and
of course of the rich musical traditions of his native town. Hence
the architectonic perfection and the beauty of the proportions,
the ebullient pulsation of the rhythm (his famous dotted "Lombardian"
rhythm!) and the element of the dancing movement, the fascination
of the song melos and the colourist interpretation of the orchestra.
A musician who plays Vivaldi's Bassoon Concertos meets most difficult
challenges. One has to convey with perfect expressiveness the melodious
plasticity of the Italian bel canto; to show a virtuoso technique;
to make a delicate gradation in correlation of solo and tutti; to
be able to show the subtlety and elegance of the chamber music and
at the same time the orchestral range of expression. This is how
one can reach an effect of the polychromatic sound space of Vivaldi's
music.
Vivaldi's great intuition helped him to introduce a wonderful combination
of the timbre of bassoon and string instruments (and also harpsichord
which played the part of basso contino). This godsend proved to
be very prospective for further developing of the concert repertoire
for this instrument as string orchestra is present in many compositions
for the bassoon.
Natalia Gavrilova
Doctor of Musicology, Professor of the Moscow Conservatoire
Valery Popov (b. 1937) graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire
in 1966. By that time he had already become a bassoonist of the
USSR State Symphony Orchestra. Since 1971 he teaches at the Moscow
Conservatoire, since 1991 professor, since 1992 head the chair of
the wind and percussion instruments. He continues his concert activity
and enlarges his huge repertoire.
Valery Polyansky (b.1949) occupies a unique place in Russia's
musical life. He graduated from the Moscow conservatoire in 1971
both as a choral and symphonic conductor. Along with Gennady Rozhdestvensky
he founded The State Academic Capella. It's a highly professional
group that includes both symphony orchestra and an academic chorus,
over 200 musicians altogether. Polyansky also performs as conductor
with various orchestras in Russia and in Europe and always displays
a wonderful artistry and subtle sense of style.
Antonio Vivaldi
Five Concertos for bassoon and chamber orchestra
Concerto g-moll, RV 496
1 Allegro 3.25
2 Largo 5.16
3 Allegro 3.29
Concerto C- Dur, RV 475
4 Allegro non molto 4.04
5 Adagio 4.17
6 Allegro non molto 3.38
Concerto a-moll, RV 500
7 Allegro 3.34
8 Largo 4.06
9 Allegro 3.19
Concerto F- Dur, RV 486
10 Allegro non molto 3.46
11 Largo 2.26
12 Allegro 2.54
Concerto e-moll, RV 484
13 Allegro poco 4.28
14 Andante 3.20
15 Allegro 3.21
Total time: 55.29
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