This release is part of the gargantuan effort by the Naïve label to record the entire Foà and Giordano Collection from the Italian National Library in Turin, 450 works by Vivaldi that, for the most part, have rarely been heard. The collection includes 39 bassoon concertos, and historical bassoon specialist Sergio Azzolini is working his way through them, issuing a new album every few years; this 2021 release is the fifth. If all this sounds like plodding completism at its worst, rest assured that it isn't. For whatever ...
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This release is part of the gargantuan effort by the Naïve label to record the entire Foà and Giordano Collection from the Italian National Library in Turin, 450 works by Vivaldi that, for the most part, have rarely been heard. The collection includes 39 bassoon concertos, and historical bassoon specialist Sergio Azzolini is working his way through them, issuing a new album every few years; this 2021 release is the fifth. If all this sounds like plodding completism at its worst, rest assured that it isn't. For whatever reason, many of these works are extraordinary. They have usually been ascribed to Vivaldi's work at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, whose collection included one or more bassoons, but here, annotator Cesare Fertonani proposes instead that Vivaldi wrote them for skilled opera instrumentalists, perhaps Bohemian. This makes sense for several reasons. Many of the opening movements sound as though they could have come from operas, with sharply shifting moods that evoke a dramatic...
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