Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto (2014)

The graphics don't make it clear, but what's here are recorder concertos, not those for the transverse flute. Swiss recorder player Maurice Steger and conductor Diego Fasolis, with his historical-instrument group I Barocchisti, have recorded Vivaldi before, but this collection of concertos goes into new territory. It might be preferable to the earlier release on Claves for the sound alone: Harmonia Mundi's engineers, working in an auditorium in Lugano, make room for the quicksilver, liquid sound of I Barocchisti here. As ... Read More

The graphics don't make it clear, but what's here are recorder concertos, not those for the transverse flute. Swiss recorder player Maurice Steger and conductor Diego Fasolis, with his historical-instrument group I Barocchisti, have recorded Vivaldi before, but this collection of concertos goes into new territory. It might be preferable to the earlier release on Claves for the sound alone: Harmonia Mundi's engineers, working in an auditorium in Lugano, make room for the quicksilver, liquid sound of I Barocchisti here. As for the playing itself, Fasolis adopts the hypothesis, explained in the notes, that the more high-powered among these concertos were written not for Vivaldi's usual instrumentalists at the Ospedale della Pietà girls' home, but for a noted virtuoso. And he not only adopts that position, but pushes it to its extreme limit. Sample the Presto movement of the Concerto in G minor, RV 439 ("La notte"), track 6, for an idea of what this recording gets into. About all that can be said about... Read Less

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