Petri plays Vivaldi Concertos
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Composer or Director: Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Red Seal
Magazine Review Date: 12/1987
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: RL86656

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 1 in E, 'Spring', RV269 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 2 in G minor, 'Summer', RV315 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 3 in F, 'Autumn', RV293 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 4 in F minor, 'Winter', RV297 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
Concerto for Sopranino Recorder and Strings |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
Composer or Director: Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Red Seal
Magazine Review Date: 12/1987
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 48
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: RD86656

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 1 in E, 'Spring', RV269 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 2 in G minor, 'Summer', RV315 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 3 in F, 'Autumn', RV293 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 4 in F minor, 'Winter', RV297 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
Concerto for Sopranino Recorder and Strings |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
Composer or Director: Antonio Vivaldi
Label: Red Seal
Magazine Review Date: 12/1987
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: RK86656

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 1 in E, 'Spring', RV269 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 2 in G minor, 'Summer', RV315 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 3 in F, 'Autumn', RV293 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movement: No. 4 in F minor, 'Winter', RV297 |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
Concerto for Sopranino Recorder and Strings |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer George Malcolm, Conductor Guildhall String Ensemble Michala Petri, Recorder |
Author: Edward Greenfield
Those likely to be attracted by the idea of Petri as soloist are not going to be worried overmuch about any scholarly justification, and though the recorder might be counted a period instrument, it remains alone in this ensemble, with, the talented young string-players (originally assembled at Guildhall School in London) adopting their usual modern performance technique. The hand of another highly individual artist lies behind this too, George Malcolm, who springs rhythms in his continuo to match his soloist, and adds his own little harpsichord cadenza before the first movement coda of ''Autumn''.
The problem for Petri in making her transcription for recorder has been largely one of pitch, far more critical than with Galway's flute. In the opening tutti, you hear the bright silvery sound of the soloist from the start, and then the great shrieks on high B confirm the arrival of the sopranino recorder, never a discreet instrument. Though Petri does wonders in making it more expressive than I have ever known it, the relentlessly penetrating quality of sopranino tone is wearing, and the very end of ''Winter'', shrieking away up an octave gets near to being painful. Even so, the bird-song imitations are made the more naturalistic by the brightness of timbre, and unlike such a baroque flautist as Frans Bruggen in his accounts of Vivaldi's Flute Concerto, Il gardellino (RCA GL70951; CD RD70951, 2/87), Petri steers a relatively discreet line between naturalism and the notes in the score, when it comes to bird-song. In fast movements her articulation is a marvel, as in the Danza pastorale of ''Spring'', while understandably she opts out in favour of the violin in some of the last movement tuttis of the Storm in the second concerto.
Where in the slow movements of the first two concertos the relatively low pitching of the melody allows for the more comfortable timbre of the ordinary descant recorder, the slow movements of ''Autumn'' and ''Winter'' are made the more edgy by sopranino tone, and it is the same instrument which is used in the concerto which comes as makeweight on Side 2, the delightful Concerto in C, RV443, with its haunting minor-key slow movement and a finale which brightly uses horn-pipe rhythm. Compared with Petri's earlier version for Philips with Iiona Brown and the St Martin's Academy (9500 714, 11/80; CD 400 075-2PH, 7/83), this one is even fresher and clearer, largely a question of recorded sound.
Having the extra concerto brings—unnecessarily I should have thought in this age of metal mastering—an irritating side-break on LP. The turn-over point comes after the first movement of ''Autumn'' and I wonder if that decision was made by a technician with little knowledge of the music. Otherwise the recording is bright and fresh to match the performances, with the solo instruments grabbing prominence naturally without too much spotlighting.'
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