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...afternoon began with a performance of Vivaldi's Concerto per Orchestre per la solennita di S. Lorenso. The cheerful montony of Vivaldi's Concerti grossi is difficult to sustain, and the orchestra's playing was often marred by a somewhat fuzzy attack. The solist group, with the notable exception of the cellist Clarke Slater, also had an offday, and the strength of the winds only made the Concerto as a whole sound more ragged...
...Handel:Concerti Gross! Opus 6(1 Mu-sici Ensemble; Epic). A mixture of exuberant passages, serene fugues and multivoiced instrumental harmonies, Handel's Concerti Nos. 4, 9 and 10 get the electric tempo they deserve from a brilliant ensemble that was launched in Rome...
...Corelli: Concerti Grossi Opus 6 (Chamber Orchestra of the Societas Musica, directed by Jorgen Ernst Hansen; Vanguard, 3 LPs). An expert in the concerto-grosso form (where a group of solo instruments maintains a dialogue with an orchestral ensemble), Corelli was also the first to relax the strict contrapuntal style of his era, is shown in this recording to have mastered the full scope of string sonorities by making violins sound like a full-voiced choir...
...Vivaldi: Concerti (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Five works for violins, cellos and strings by an Italian composer, the bulk of whose works remained unpublished until the late 19405. Since then, Vivaldi has been recognized as a topflight composer; he switches from gentle, birdlike flutterings to rough bearlike thumpings with masterful agility...
Bonporti: Concerti a Quattro (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Four of the ten polyphonic concertos, marked Opus n by a recently discovered Italian Jesuit philosopher whose lifelong ambition was not to compose music but to become canon at the Cathedral of Trento. Bonporti (1672-1749), who remained an ordinary priest and died brokenhearted, abandoned Corelli's standard concerto-grosso form, loaded his dialogues between violins, violas and bass with such a personal, rhythmic melody that he became a forerunner of 19th century romanticism...