His mapping of long crescendos and perception of tonal schemes through each movement are keenly intelligent. Queyras himself is equally sparkling in his virtuosic and stylish renditions of these works. His partner in this ambient recording is the resplendent Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, whose players offer rhythmically vital and spontaneously vivid performances. Accordingly he has planned a programme that takes account of the different keys of individual works and intersperses concertos with orchestral sinfonias, including a couple by Vivaldi’s contemporary Antonio Caldara, which maximise the contrasts of structure as well as timbre. The remarkable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras intends this disc to be savoured in its entirety like a concert. Musicians: Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Georg Kallweit Arrangement: Suzanne Richter, Basso Continuo: Marcus Stein.Description: A well-planned Vivaldi concert with spectacular results The sonorous work with its playful outer movements and expressive largo is published in this critical new edition on the basis of the sources.

More than two dozen of his concertos are dedicated to the violoncello, including probably the most famous double concerto: the Concerto for two violoncellos, string orchestra and basso continuo in G minor (RV 531) written after 1770.

Thanks to the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), there exists today not only a wealth of magnificent violin concertos but also quite a number of cello concertos to whose development he contributed considerably. The genre of the violoncello concerto was born in 17th-century Italy.

Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for Two Cellos and Piano, RV 531 – Schott Ed.

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