The complete set of Vivaldi bassoon concertos being undertaken by the Naxos label, bassoonist Tamás Benkócs, and the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia under Béla Drahos may seem like overkill, but don't knock the idea until you've heard this disc or one of the others in the series. Vivaldi wrote 39 concertos for bassoon and orchestra, most or all of them intended for the young virtuosi of his all-girl orchestra at the Ospedale della Pietŕ. They are a decidedly underrated corner of his output, dedicated perhaps more than anything ...
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The complete set of Vivaldi bassoon concertos being undertaken by the Naxos label, bassoonist Tamás Benkócs, and the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia under Béla Drahos may seem like overkill, but don't knock the idea until you've heard this disc or one of the others in the series. Vivaldi wrote 39 concertos for bassoon and orchestra, most or all of them intended for the young virtuosi of his all-girl orchestra at the Ospedale della Pietŕ. They are a decidedly underrated corner of his output, dedicated perhaps more than anything else he wrote to the ideal of sheer virtuosity. Many of the outer movements here are almost like technical studies in the demands they make on the bassoonist; Benkócs lands cleanly on percussive notes at the bottom of the bassoon's range and then leaps gracefully back up to the high beam of the main line. Yet all the virtuosity is, as usual with Vivaldi, embedded in examples of fascinating structural thinking. The music grabs your attention right at the beginning with the...
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