皮埃蒙特的首府是意大利第3大城市都灵,维瓦尔第有超过450部作品的原始乐谱和手稿就收藏在都灵国立图书馆(Biblioteca Nazionale Di Torino)。这些珍贵史料主要是外汇代理商佛亚和企业家玖丹诺的贡献,他们为了纪念早逝的儿子,分别于1927年和1930年慷慨捐献。随后图书馆当局又积极购藏其他失散在外的乐谱,如今所藏维瓦尔第作品已经高达27卷之多。Opus 111这家高品味唱片公司,针对这批乐谱先前尚未被录音的部分加以整理,准备通通录成CD,此录音计划称为《皮埃蒙特宝藏》(Treasures of Piedmont)。
The official ‘debut’ of composer Vivaldi! Probably the earliest works of his that have come down to us...
Naïve’s valiant project to record Vivaldi’s complete personal library of scores (some four hundred fifty autograph manuscripts preserved in Turin) has surpassed forty CDs and counting, but the label has already begun appendices to the project, including new discoveries and, as here, important pieces not included in the main collection. This is a wonderful thing, as it gives us nine of the Red Priest’s Op. 1 trio sonatas in intense, color-rich performances by the period-instrument ensemble L’Estravagante. One vital development of the latter-day period-instrument movement has been the reclaiming of Italian Baroque repertoire by Italian groups (back from Northern Europeans who got there first, if not best). Like their finest native counterparts, L’Estravagante speaks this music as a mother tongue – and the sound is vivacious, dramatic, gorgeous. Vivaldi’s chamber settings for two violins with cello or harpsichord (and sometimes theorbo or chamber organ) are as fresh as sunshine here, starting with the composer’s eleven-minute set of variations on the compulsive “La Folia” rhythmic-melodic theme so pervasive in the Baroque era. This isn’t demure, rarified chamber art; it’s music as sensual rapture.
In 1705, Giuseppe Sala published in Venice the Suonote do camera a tre, due violini o violone o cembalo op.1 of Antonio Vivaldi. This set of trio sonatas marked the official 'debut' of a composer who was already more than a mere youth (the 'Prete Rosso' was then 27-years old), and probably contains the earliest works of his that have come down to us. It is very likely, though, as Michael Talbot has pointed out, that the copy of 1705 is in fact a reprint of a now lost first edition published in 1703. However that may be, this collection dedicated to the Brescian nobleman Count Annibale Gambara displays a balance - at times, inevitably, somewhat precarious - between reference to codified formulas and models, on the one hand, and the definition of an original expressive voice on the other. In terms of scoring, his Op.1 adopts the recently created Italian format of the trio sonata, the output of which was dominated by the Arcadian reform of Arcangelo Corelli: even in Venice, where a renowned instrumental tradition already existed, Corelli's Opp.1-4 enjoyed almost immediate diffusion and were reprinted by the aforementioned Sala just a few years after the Roman first editions (in 1684, 1686, 1691 and 1695 respectively).
Contents:
Sonata XII "Follia" in D minor, RV63
Sonata IX in A major, RV75
Sonata I in G minor, RV73
Sonata XI in B minor, RV79
Sonata VIII In D Minor, RV64
Sonata IV in E major, RV66
Sonata III in C major, RV61
Sonata VII in E flat major, RV65
Sonata X in B flat major, RV78
Tracks:
1. Sonate XII "Follia" in D minor, RV63 11'08
Sonata IX in A major, RV75
2. Sonate IX - Preludio-Allegro
3. Sonate IX - Adagio
4. Sonate IX - Allemanda – Allegro
5. Sonate IX - Corrente – Presto
Sonata I in G minor, RV73
6. Sonate I - Preludio – Grave
7. Sonate I - Allemanda – Allegro
8. Sonate I - Adagio
9. Sonate I - Capriccio – Allegro
10. Sonate I - Gavotta – Allegro
Sonata XI in B minor, RV79
11. Sonate XI - Preludio – Andante
12. Sonate XI - Corrente – Allegro
14. Sonate XI - Gavotta – Presto
Sonata VIII In D Minor, RV64
15. Sonate VIII - Preludio – Largo
16. Sonate VIII - Corrente – Allegro
17. Sonate VIII - Grave
18. Sonate VIII - Giga – Allegro
Sonata IV in E major, RV66
19. Sonata IV - Largo
20. Sonata IV - Allegro
21. Sonata IV - Allemanda – Allegro
22. Sonata IV - Sarabanda – Largo
23. Sonate IV - Giga – Allegro
Sonata III in C major, RV61
24. Sonate III - Adagio
25. Sonate III - Allemanda – Allegro
26. Sonate III - Adagio
27. Sonate III - Sarabanda – Allegro
Sonata VII in E flat major, RV65
28. Sonate VII - Preludio – Largo
29. Sonate VII - Allemanda – Allegro
30. Sonate VII - Sarabanda – Andante
31. Sonate VII - Giga – Presto
Sonata X in B flat major, RV78
32. Sonate X - Preludio – Adagio
33. Sonate X - Allemanda – Allegro
34. Sonate X - Gavotta – Presto