Vivaldi: La Stravaganza Op. 4, Transcriptions for Organ

Scandali, Luca

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The concerto played a major role in the evolution of the style and language of instrumental music as early as the end of the 17th century, enjoying an increasing popularity and importance throughout the 18th century.

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), who was certainly not the inventor of the concerto grosso or the solo concerto, can without doubt be considered the composer who gave the greatest impetus to the genre, until it became the product par excellence of instrumental music around the first half of the 18th century: without Vivaldi and his concertos, the history of music would have taken different paths and orientations.

Many concertos found their way to the audience through adaptations or transcriptions for harpsichord or organ. This CD presents Violin Concertos from Vivaldi’s La Stravaganza Op. 4, transcribed for organ. These are contained in the collection known as Anne Dawson's Book and kept at the Henry Watson Music Library in Manchester (UK). The collection, compiled around 1720, contains, in addition to arias for voice and basso continuo, a number of compositions for keyboard instrument along with several transcriptions of concertos by various composers, including 10 by Vivaldi. They are closely related to the original score and show an evident process of adaptation to the possibilities and idiom of the keyboard instrument.

Organist Luca Scandali is one of Italy’s foremost scholars and keyboard players. For Brilliant Classics he recorded the complete organ works by C.P.E. Bach (nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik), Galuppi, Pasquini, Pellegrini and Padovano. He plays the Gaetano Callido organ from 1774 at the Church of San Venanzo, Albacina, Italy.

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Brilliant Classics

3/1/23

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