Paolo Carlini - Italian Bassoon Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

At the close of the seventeenth century, Farina, Minei, and Netti created some of the most popular pieces of their day. Their dialogues for soprano and bass offer a colorful palette of emotions. This recording presents the first modern performance of several pieces that once enchanted Neapolitan evenings. Their interplay of contrasting passions is a breathtaking musical postcard from the Bay of Naples.

Paolo Carlini - Bassoon Works [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/14/2014

The group of concertos for bassoon by Antonio Vivaldi (Venice, 4 March 1678 - Vienna, 28 July 1741) is the largest such collection in terms of quantity after those for violin no less than thirty-nine are in fact extant, and only two are incomplete. But beyond these details, Inchwhat is remarkableInch, as Cesare Fertonani recently wrote, Inchis Vivaldi's extraordinary understanding of the technical possibilities of the bassoon, reflected in his avant- garde treatment of the instrument which attains the complete and sumptuous dignity of a soloist, and his intuition probably unprecedented in the history of music of it's expressive potential.Inch Paolo Carlini is the soloist of this selection of the most important concerts dedicated to the instrument by Vivaldi, flanked by the famous InchVirtuosi ItalianiInch orchestra, directed by Alberto Martini as a violin concert maestro.