 | No. 187 of the ongoing ITYWLTMT series of audio montages can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/pcast187 |
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Part two of
our look at the double concertos of Antonio Vivaldi places a premium on
concertos for violin and one wind instrument as soloists. There are tons of
baroque concerti that are for 2 violins, or violin & oboe – Bach’s concerto
BWV 1060 (originally for two keyboards) is best known in its transcription for
violin and oboe, for example. I retained a fine concertos for that very same
combination of instruments to begin this week’s podcast.
As was
pointed out somewhere, concertos for "two treble instruments" can
have one of the parts adapted for the flute, and works by Telemann and Vivaldi
often get that treatment.
The bulk of today’s podcast considers six such
concertos, played by Jean-Pierre Rampal and Isaac Stern as solists. This is not
their first recordings of some of these, as I own an earlier analog
recording they made of two of these with the Jerusalem Music Centre orchestra.
Finally, a
concerto for cello and bassoon matches two “deep” instruments as soloists. This
concerto comes from the excellent compilation of Vivaldi cello concertos by
Ofra Harnoy, who contributed a pair of double concertos to last week’s montage.
I think you will love this music too.
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