Vivaldi Browser is a fast, private and secure browser that blocks ads and trackers. It puts you in control with unique features. Get Vivaldi for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android! Vivaldi Browser Community. Here’s why you'll definitely want to sign up. With a Vivaldi account you can synchronise your Vivaldi browser data, participate in forum discussions, get a free webmail account (YourUsername@vivaldi.net), and host a blog on Vivaldi.net (YourUsername.vivaldi.net). Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist who left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto and the style of late Baroque instrumental music. His best-known work is The Four Seasons, a cycle of violin concerti wherein each concerto depicts a different season of the year. La stravaganza (The Eccentricity), Op. 4, is a set of concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1712–1713. The set was first published in 1716 in Amsterdam and was dedicated to Venetian nobleman Vettor Delfino, who had been a violin student of Vivaldi's. All of the concertos are scored for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo; however, some movements require extra soloists (such as a. Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4,1678 to Giovanni Battista Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio in Venice, Italy. Childhood of Antonio Vivaldi Vivaldi came from a poor family. He was taught how to play violin at a young age by his father Giovanni Battista Vivaldi. He began this education at the age of 14 or 15 and became a priest.

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The Four Seasons, composed in 1723, is one of Baroque legend Vivaldi's most famous works for violin. Here's a very special performance of one of the movements, from one of Europe's top chamber orchestras.

We usually associate Vivaldi with Venice and the Italian sun. However, an orchestra has taken 'Winter' from The Four Seasons and turned it into something quite different.

The Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra decided to perform this masterpiece in one of the most northern places on Earth, Telegrafbukta, Tromsø, deep above the Arctic Circle in Norway. The orchestra's Artistic Director and star violinist Henning Kraggerud performs the solo passages in a separate shot, filmed in the snow, ice and magical arctic light.

There's much more from the Arctic Philharmonic on their YouTube channel (the sound engineer for this incredible video was Asle Karstad, the video creator and editor was Håvard Bilsbak).

More about these incredible concertos...

Vivaldi wrote so many concertos that, much like Haydn and his symphonies, he tended to resort to nicknames rather than numbers, for ease. Each concerto of his Four Seasons corresponds to a different season – so it's easy to guess how he nicknamed this particular work.

The music is accompanied by beautiful Italian sonnets, possibly written by Vivaldi himself after he was inspired by painter Marco Ricci's paintings of the seasons. It's even customary in some concerts that a narrator reads the poems before the performance, to bring the musical story to life.

Listen out for the texture of the music representing winter, with the high-pitched plucking from the strings sounding a bit like cold and icy rain. There are also more descriptive labels dotted throughout the movements: the second movement of Spring is part-labelled 'the barking dog', while one section of Autumn says 'the drunks have fallen asleep'. You might even hear a passionate thunderstorm in Summer, with the balmy music representing a warm August evening.

La tempesta di mare ('The Storm at Sea'), a flute concerto in F Major (RV 433; P. 261), is the first of Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10 by Antonio Vivaldi, published in the late 1720s. La tempesta di mare may also refer to two earlier versions of the same concerto, RV 98, a concerto da camera (chamber concerto) featuring the flute, from which Vivaldi derived the concerto grosso RV 570.

La tempesta di mare may also refer to the violin concerto with the same name published in the same 1725 edition as the Four Seasons: this is however a different composition than the three flute concerto variants.

History[edit]

Vivaldi helped to bring the concerto to a mainstream form, not only by expanding on ritornello form, but by emphasizing the slow movements of concertos, which were in a two part binary form. Solo instruments that Vivaldi wrote concertos for include violin, bassoon, cello, oboe, viola d'amore, flute and mandolin.^[1] He also wrote ensemble concertos (concerto grosso and/or chamber concerto), where three or more soloists participate, which number over 30 written. Vivaldi had an extensive influence on the concerto genre, helping to pioneer the structure, expanding the boundaries of the genre, and showing that any instrument could have a concerto.^{[citation needed]}

Vivaldi's contemporaries and predecessors such as Purcell, Bach and Handel featured the flute (traverso and/or recorder) significantly in their works.^[2] RV 433 was conceived as a concerto for transverse flute in D.^[3] The first publication of the concerto, included as No. 1 in Vivaldi's Op. 10, VI Concerti a Flauto Traverso, was around 1728 in Amsterdam, by Michel-Charles Le Cène. The La tempesta di mare name for the concerto is given in the score.^[4]

Giving a musical impression of a storm was a popular theme in baroque music. For instance operas like Marin Marais' Alcyone contained famous storm scenes. Telemann wrote a secular cantata La Tempesta (The Storm), TWV 20:42, after an Italian libretto by Metastasio. Vivaldi wrote several tempesta di mare concertos.^[5] Two variants of RV 433, RV 98 and RV 570, are in the chamber concerto and concerto grosso format respectively.^[6] RV 98 is scored for flute, oboe, violin, bassoon, and continuo, from which Vivaldi created the RV 570 concerto grosso by adding orchestral violins to reinforce the solo oboe and violin, and a viola part doubling the bass at the upper octave.^{[7][8][9][10]} An unrelated tempesta di mare concerto, a violin concerto in E♭ major, RV 253, is included as No. 5 in Vivaldi's Op. 8 Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione.^[9][11]The Four Seasons, the first four concertos of that collection, also include a few musical depictions of stormy weather.

According to Federico Maria Sardelli the chamber concerto version of La tempesta di mare, RV 98, was possibly written for Ignazio Sieber, during the time in which he worked with the composer at the Ospedale della Pietà from 1713 to 1716.^[3] This means that this version of the concerto may have been the earliest flute concerto ever composed, and also the first flute piece to include the problematic high F₆.^[7] Sardelli's conclusions, if correct, would overturn 'the received scholarly view that, rather than writing for the recorder in the first two or three decades of the eighteenth century, then switching over to the flute, Vivaldi already preferred the flute in the 1710s and did not start writing for the recorder until the early 1720s'.^[12]

Structure[edit]

The movements of the concerto are:

Reception[edit]

RV 433 is not among the five concertos Vivaldi composed for the recorder (RV 441–445). Being one of the 14 concertos Vivaldi wrote for traverso (including one for two traversos), the concerto is nonetheless often performed as a recorder concerto, like many of these other traverso concertos. Thus it is for instance included in Dan Laurin's Recorder Concertos CD.^[13] There are dozens of recordings of the concerto, performed on the traverso as well as the recorder, for instance by Jean-Pierre Rampal in the 1960s,^[14] by Frans Brüggen and by Barthold Kuijken with La Petite Bande.^[15]

References[edit]

1. ^Sadie, Stanley 'Vivaldi, Antonio' in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: 1980, pp. 31-45
2. ^Sadie, Stanley, 'Recorder' in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. London: 1984. pp. 205-215
3. ^ ^abSardelli 2007, 138
4. ^(score:) Le Cène & c.1728.
5. ^Talbot, Michael. 'Dictionary' p. 183 in The Vivaldi Compendium. Boydell Press, 2011. ISBN9781843836704
6. ^(score:) Dover 2002, p. 172.
7. ^ ^abPowell 2008, 121
8. ^Selfridge-Field 1978, 336
9. ^ ^abTalbot 2001, Work-List
10. ^Talbot 2004, 1021
11. ^Talbot 1993, p. 121.
12. ^Lasocki 2008, 496
13. ^Dan Laurin and Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble. Antonio Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos. Bis, 1994
14. ^Jean-Pierre Rampal with I Solisti Veneti conducted by Claudio Scimone. 'No. 1 in F major, P. 261: La tempesta di mare' in Antonio Vivaldi: The complete flute concertos. New York: CBS Masterworks, 1967. OCLC42524796
15. ^Concert voor fluit en strijkorkest RV.433, op.10, nr.1 in F gr.t., 'La tempesta di mare' at www.muziekweb.nl

Sources[edit]

Score editions

• Le Cène c.1728: Vivaldi, AntonioVI Concerti a Flauto Traverso ..., Op. 10. Amsterdam: Michel-Charles Le Cène, c.1728. OCLC658705889
• Dover 2002: Vivaldi, Antonio. Six Flute Concertos Op. 10, in Full Score: With Related Concertos for Other Wind Instruments, edited by Eleanor Selfridge-Field. New York: Dover, 2002. ISBN9780486422435.

Other

• Lasocki, David. 'Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder. By Federico Maria Sardelli. Translated by Michael Talbot. Burlington, VT: Ashgate in association with Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi/Fondazione 'Giorgio Cini', 2007. [xxii, 336 p. ISBN9780754637141'. [Review] Notes, second series, 64, no. 3 (March 2008): 496–98.
• Powell, Ardal. 'Vivaldi's Flutes: Federico Maria Sardelli, Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder, trans. by Michael Talbot (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)'. Early Music 36, no. 1 (February 2008): 120–22.
• Sardelli, Federico Maria. Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder, translated by Michael Talbot. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd, 2007. ISBN075463714X.
• Selfridge-Field, Eleanor. 'Vivaldi's Esoteric Instruments'. Early Music 6, no. 3 (July 1978): 332–38.
• Talbot, Michael. Vivaldi, second edition. Master Musicians Series. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1993. Reprinted in paperback, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Talbot, Michael. 'Vivaldi, Antonio (Lucio)' in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001.
• Talbot, Michael. 'Antonio Vivaldi. Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10, in Full Score: With Related Concertos for Other Wind Instruments. Edited with an introduction by Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, c2002. Introd., p. vii-ix; facsim. reprod., 1 p.; score, p. 1–166; the Dover edition, p. 169–76. ISBN0-486-42243-7'. Notes, second series 60, no. 4 (June 2004): 1021–24.

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External links[edit]

• Recording by the San Francisco Early Music Ensemble, Voices of Music, with Hanneke van Proosdij on the recorder (official YouTube channel)
• Flute Concerto in F major, RV 433: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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