The Naxos label's gargantuan Vivaldi project rolls on with his 39 bassoon concertos. Why did he write 39 bassoon concertos? Why would anyone? Various explanations have been proposed, from the instrumental virtuosity of his students at the girls' orphanage where he worked for much of his life to the frequency with which bassoons were present in the ...
The complete set of Vivaldi bassoon concertos being undertaken by the Naxos label, bassoonist Tamás Benkócs, and the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia under Béla Drahos may seem like overkill, but don't knock the idea until you've heard this disc or one of the others in the series. Vivaldi wrote 39 concertos for bassoon and orchestra, most or all of ...
In his 52 years, eighteenth century Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa left behind an astounding 65 operas and that was not through sheer industriousness but to meet demand; in terms of Italian opera, Cimarosa was the biggest fish in the pond -- even bigger than Mozart was. Only one of his operas has gained a foothold in the repertory, Il ...
Antonio Vivaldi, for reasons that are not yet fully understood, wrote no fewer than 39 bassoon concertos. The Naxos label has been working through the whole group in six volumes, of which this release is the fifth, featuring bassoonist Tamás Benkócs with the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia under Béla Drahos. It might seem an excessively completist ...
Naxos' series of explanatory CDs on operas serves an important function for anyone seriously interested in understanding the genre and specific works. Its target audience is likely to be friends of opera lovers who may press one of these CDs into their hands in the hope that a very thorough introduction to the opera will inspire them to attend a ...
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