Vivaldi: Il teatro alla moda
Unpublished concertos for violin
Amandine Beyer (violin)
Gli incogniti
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
While on paper there's obvious common ground - Vivaldian sequences, dazzling arpeggios across the strings, languid aria-like slow movements - when imbued with the intensity and imagination of...
Vivaldi: Il teatro alla moda
Unpublished concertos for violin
Amandine Beyer (violin)
Gli incogniti
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
While on paper there's obvious common ground - Vivaldian sequences, dazzling arpeggios across the strings, languid aria-like slow movements - when imbued with the intensity and imagination of...
About
1720: in his famous pamphlet 'Il teatro alla moda', the composer Marcello satirised the excesses of new-fangled Venetian opera. Cadenzas, variations, ‘divismo’, virtuosity, popular dances, assorted sound effects: nearly three centuries later, each of the ‘qualities’ he mocked has provided the inspiration for this new release from Gli Incogniti to the glory of Vivaldi. The Red Priest who aroused Marcello’s patrician indignation could not have cared less about such formal taboos! His experiments, his spontaneity, his juxtapositions and contrasts served only one rhetorical cause: the theatrical dimension of his instrumental music. Take your seats!
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineConcerto Choice
February 2016
While on paper there's obvious common ground - Vivaldian sequences, dazzling arpeggios across the strings, languid aria-like slow movements - when imbued with the intensity and imagination of Beyer and Gli Incogniti these emerge as a constant stream of new colours, emotions and effects…forget the cheap jibes; Vivaldi was a supreme master of musical invention, as this recording triumphantly demonstrates
December 2015
Beyer's exciting young group have gleefully thrown Marcello's criticisms back in his face by showing not just how vivid Vivaldi's theatricality can be, but that it shows itself in its greatest depth in his concertos rather than his stage works ...flow, colour, lyricism and poise combine, and Vivaldi's spirit lives to command the stage.
21st November 2015
a parade of exhausting virtuosity applied to grace and beauty, played with dazzling vivacity by Amandine Beyer
29th November 2015
an earthy, raw and brilliant response to some of Vivaldi’s most scintillating violin concertos
1st January 2016
A consistently invigorating kaleidoscope of Vivaldian invention.
