Vivaldi Bassoon Concerti (2013)

Antonio Vivaldi wrote 39 concertos for bassoon and orchestra, two of them partly lost. Their purposes and intended recipients remain largely unknown, but whoever played them first must have been a formidable instrumentalist.Some of them seem to be late Vivaldi works, and the bassoon parts seem to upset the delicate formal balance of Baroque style with sheer energy. Veteran British early music conductor Nicholas McGegan, leading a small group of Canadian and American string players, adopts quick, oddly jittery tempos in the ... Read More

Antonio Vivaldi wrote 39 concertos for bassoon and orchestra, two of them partly lost. Their purposes and intended recipients remain largely unknown, but whoever played them first must have been a formidable instrumentalist.Some of them seem to be late Vivaldi works, and the bassoon parts seem to upset the delicate formal balance of Baroque style with sheer energy. Veteran British early music conductor Nicholas McGegan, leading a small group of Canadian and American string players, adopts quick, oddly jittery tempos in the outer movements, with unusual operatic effects throughout, such as strange gauzy effects in several of the slow movements. When Canadian bassoonist Nadina Mackie Jackson begins to play, the logic is revealed: she and McGegan turn these concertos into pure virtuoso vehicles, and they do so very effectively indeed. McGegan pushes Jackson to the edge, and she responds with accurate, controlled playing that both maintains a consistent tone and identifies the places where the music... Read Less

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