VIVALDI: LA VIOLA DA GAMBA IN CONCERTO - Le Concert des Nations, Savall (CD)

Jordi Savall
Le Concert des Nations
Vivaldi and the viol are two concepts that until very recently have rarely been brought into conjunction. Did we not know from the testimonies of André Maugars in 1639 and Thomas Hill in 1657 that the viol, still thriving north of the Alps, had already become an all-but-extinct instrument in Italy – replaced by the bass violin, which, when built in a slightly smaller size, with covered strings and altered tuning, would in a few decades become the cello? And was not Vivaldi an ultra-progressive composer who would have turned up his nose at such a relic of the past?

La Viola da gamba in concerto (Viole e Violoncello “all’inglese”)

Concerto con Violino e Viola da gamba, Archi e Continuo
La maggiore (La majeur), RV 546

Concerto con 2 Violini e Viola da gamba, Archi e Continuo
Re minore (Ré mineur), RV 565 [1725]

“Concerto Funebre” con Hautbois sordini e Salmoè, e viola da gamba soprano
Si bem. maggiore (Si bémol majeur), RV 579

Concerto “Il Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio” con Violino e Violoncello obbligati, Archi e Continuo
Fa maggiore (Fa majeur), RV 544

Concerto con 2 Violini e Viola da gamba obbligati, Archi e Continuo
Sol minore (Sol mineur), RV 578 [1725])

Concerto con 4 Violini e Violoncello obbligati, Archi e Continuo
Si minore (Si mineur), RV 580

Concerto con molti Istromenti
Con 2 Flauti, Hautbois, 1 Salmoè, 1 Violino principale, 2 “Violette all’Inglese”, 2 Trombe, 2 Clavicembali, Archi e Continuo
Do maggiore (Do majeur), RV 555