The notes for this Harmonia Mundi release stress the pioneering quality of the Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9, heard here; it was the first concerto for viola ever composed. It may date from between 1716 and 1721. This is certainly notable, and annotator Frédéric Lainé goes into some detail as to why Vivaldi, say, who wrote hundreds of violin concertos, did not write any for viola. That concerto, however, is just the beginning of the wonders of this album, which begins at innovative (the Viola Concerto has a new ...
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The notes for this Harmonia Mundi release stress the pioneering quality of the Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9, heard here; it was the first concerto for viola ever composed. It may date from between 1716 and 1721. This is certainly notable, and annotator Frédéric Lainé goes into some detail as to why Vivaldi, say, who wrote hundreds of violin concertos, did not write any for viola. That concerto, however, is just the beginning of the wonders of this album, which begins at innovative (the Viola Concerto has a new lightness that would have been uncharacteristic if Bach had written it) and goes all the way to completely off the wall. Consider the Ouverture Burlesque in B flat major, TWV 55:B8, where each movement depicts a different character from the Commedia dell'arte , or the final Ouverture-Suite in G minor, TWV 55:g2, aptly named "La Changeante," where the movements are all, except for the first and last, in different keys. Violist Antoine Tamestit and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin...
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