VIVALDI: Oboe Sonatas [CD de audio] Paolo Pollastri (oboe), Ensemble J.M. Anciuti and Vivaldi

This new recording in the growing Brilliant Classics Vivaldi discography offers an attractive set of Sonatas for solo oboe and basso continuo (in this case a generous and colorful combination of cello, bassoon and harpsichord). Paolo Pollastri is the solo oboist of the famous Orquesta Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (one of the best and most famous orchestras in Italy). In this recording, however, he plays a baroque oboe, accompanied by a baroque ensemble, following historically based performance practice. Pollastri did his own research collecting oboe sonatas from various sources and offers an apocryphal sonata, previously attributed to Chedeville, whose pastoral setting fits perfectly with the sweet, slightly melancholic timbre of the baroque oboe. The latest addition to Brilliant Classics ' growing recorded discography of the music of Venetian asthmatic Red Priest Antonio Vivaldi are oboe sonatas, performed (like most of the recordings in that catalogue) by an Italian ensemble fully aware of the latest scholarly research into Vivaldi's manuscripts and playing styles, and on period instruments, steeped in an appreciation of how to most elegantly perform Italian Baroque music. The oboist himself, Paolo Pollastri, is an oboist with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, working with many of the world's great conductors; He has also contributed fine notes to the libretto of this edition. Therefore, both technical and academic direction are not lacking for this album of joyful chamber music, which was not composed for the usual crowd of orphaned prodigies at the Ospedale della Pietà, but rather for the virtuoso travelers who made Venice a stopover. on your itinerary. Therefore, the manuscripts for the sonatas here are scattered everywhere, from Cambridge to Dresden. Pollastri also includes an apocryphal work, once attributed to Vivaldi but now attributed to the Frenchman de Chédeville, for its soft francophone and pastoral idiomatic style.