Venice: The Golden Age
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Composer or Director: Alessandro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Porta, Carlo Tessarini, Uri Rom
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 10/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 68
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: HMC90 2185
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Strings |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Berlin Academy for Ancient Music Georg Kallweit, Director, Violin |
Concerto for Violin and Strings |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Berlin Academy for Ancient Music Georg Kallweit, Director, Violin Xenia Löffler, Baroque Oboe |
Concerto for Multiple Instruments |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Berlin Academy for Ancient Music Georg Kallweit, Director, Violin Xenia Löffler, Baroque Oboe |
Concerto for Oboe and Strings |
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Berlin Academy for Ancient Music Georg Kallweit, Director, Violin Xenia Löffler, Baroque Oboe |
Sinfonia for Strings |
Giovanni Porta, Composer
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music Georg Kallweit, Director, Violin Giovanni Porta, Composer Xenia Löffler, Baroque Oboe |
Overture |
Carlo Tessarini, Composer
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music Carlo Tessarini, Composer Georg Kallweit, Director, Violin |
Concerto "L'Olimpiade' |
Uri Rom, Composer
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music Georg Kallweit, Director, Violin Uri Rom, Composer Xenia Löffler, Baroque Oboe |
Author: Lindsay Kemp
This last is a good showpiece for the Akademie’s individual talents, and elsewhere they play superbly as a unit as always, energetically detailed if not charming at every turn. Some nimble violin-playing from Georg Kallweit notwithstanding, however, the third ‘theme’ of the disc is undoubtedly the superb oboe-playing of Xenia Löffler, as smooth and swellingly expressive in slow movements as it is ripplingly agile in quicker ones. It is masterly playing and this disc is her triumph.
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