Michael Form - Vivaldiana-Venetian Flute Musi - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Christopher Fox is one of the leading lights in British contemporary music. He wrote four pieces with the title InchStraight Lines in Broken TimesInch - this is the second (the third is included on Metier msv 92059).Each piece, though otherwise totally independent, spins it's music out of a continuous stream of notes. The other major works on this album are all expertly performed by the Ives Ensemble.

?Like many of his fellow Baroque composers, Bach was an astonishingly resourceful and skilful Inchsecond userInch of his own music. Some of the harpsichord concertos, for example, probably have a Weimar prehistory as chamber concertos for various solo instruments. Here, Michael Form sets out with great detective instinct to reconstruct these presumed original versions. We thus experience nothing less than the rediscovery of an almost forgotten Baroque genre the so-called Concerto da Camera for several solo instruments without orchestral accompaniment.

The most influential and prolific composer of concertos during the Baroque was the Venetian Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). He composed approximately 500 concertos for one or more soloists, including about 350 solo concertos. He was one of the first composers to focus on the transverse flute as a viable solo instrument. Frank Theuns here combines one work (La notte, RV 439) from the famous opus 10 collection with the Concertos RV 440 and 441, both of which have survived as manuscripts in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Turin, Italy. The programme also contains concertos by Baldassare Galuppi - the manuscript of his Flute Concerto in D major (GroF 675) is preserved at the Mecklenburgische Landesbibliothek in Schwerin, Germany - and Tomaso Albinoni, whose Concerto in D minor from opus 9, originally written for oboe, is performed on this recording on the flute.