Francesco Venturini: Concerti la festa musicale

• Francesco Venturini (1675 - 1745): Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 2:
• 1 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 2: I. Concerto. Allegro assai. Adagio 06:21
• 2 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 2: II. Canon. Andante 01:52
• 3 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 2: III. Passepied & Trio 02:39
• Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 11:
• 4 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 11: I. Ouverture 04:58
• 5 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 11: II. Aria. Tempo giusto e Affettuoso 04:18
• 6 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 11: III. Furies. Presto / IV. Sarabanda. Cantabile 04:30
• 7 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 11: V. Gavotta 00:39
• 8 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 11: VI. Menuet I & II 02:05
• Ouverture à 5 in E Minor:
• 9 Ouverture à 5 in E Minor: I. Ouverture. Adagio 03:40
• 10 Ouverture à 5 in E Minor: II. Gavotte 00:58
• 11 Ouverture à 5 in E Minor: III. Sarabanda 01:42
• 12 Ouverture à 5 in E Minor: IV. Angloise & Trio 01:43
• 13 Ouverture à 5 in E Minor: V. Rondeau 01:17
• 14 Ouverture à 5 in E Minor: VI. Gigue 01:51
• Concerto à 6 in A Major:
• 15 Concerto à 6 in A Major: I. Adagio. Allegro 03:04
• 16 Concerto à 6 in A Major: II. Adagio 01:57
• 17 Concerto à 6 in A Major: III. Allegro 02:36
• Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 9:
• 18 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 9: I. Ouverture. Adagio 06:55
• 19 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 9: II. Aria. Allegro 01:54
• 20 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 9: III. Aria. Affettuoso 04:10
• 21 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 9: IV. Aria. Mouvement de Gavotte 01:55
• 22 Concerti di camera, Op. 1, No. 9: V. Menuet I & II 02:15
• Agostino Steffani (1654 - 1728):
• 23 Henrico Leone: Chaconne in C Major (Bonus Track) 02:46
• Total Runtime 01:06:05

Info for Francesco Venturini: Concerti

Orchestral music full of varied colours, expressive melodies and irresistible rhythms: Venturini creatively combines his own ideas with French and Italian stylistic elements in his concertos to create an elegant and virtuoso mélange. A real discovery!

The Concerti of the violinist-composer Francesco Venturini (c.1675-1745) are a real discovery - melodious, virtuosic, elegant and dance-like, combining Italian and French stylistic elements to form a "mixed taste", as Telemann described this mélange. Inspired by the pulsating cultural and intellectual life at the Hanoverian court, Venturini wrote ambitious orches­tral music full of joie de vivre, defined by numerous concertato passages for both wind and string instruments.

His works feature a rich diversity of - sometimes unusual - colours: as his concerto soloists, he chooses not only combinations of one or two oboes, recorders and violins, but also two bassoons and two cellos, or even an oboe, two recorders and violin - the latter being a combination reminiscent of JS Bach's Brandenburg Concertos which were to be written a few years later.

The release marks the beginning of the collaboration between audite and la festa musicale. The ensemble presents a representative cross section of Venturini's instrumental music: three orchestral suites from Opus 1, which was already published in print during his lifetime, as well as two discoveries from Swedish music collections; three works are presented as first recordings (Op. 1/2, Ouverture à 5, Concerto à 6).

The North German baroque ensemble la festa musicale stands for first rate artistic level, which is reflected in creative, interdisciplinary concert formats and top-class collaborations. The interpretations intensify the colourfulness of the works by means of instrumentation variations beyond the original score, in line with the common practice in the Baroque period, as well as by additional effects such as the use of percussion instruments.

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