Xenia Löffler, Georg Kallweit & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Concerto, Venice: The Golden Age (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Concerto "L'Olimpiade" in C Major for oboe, strings and basso continuo, Quasi-Pasticcio (after Antonio Vivaldi and Carlo Tessarini): I. Allegro ma poco
02. Concerto "L'Olimpiade" in C Major for oboe, strings and basso continuo, Quasi-Pasticcio (after Antonio Vivaldi and Carlo Tessarini): II. Adagio
03. Concerto "L'Olimpiade" in C Major for oboe, strings and basso continuo, Quasi-Pasticcio (after Antonio Vivaldi and Carlo Tessarini): III. Allegro
04. Concerto in E Minor for strings and basso continuo, RV 134: I. Allegro
05. Concerto in E Minor for strings and basso continuo, RV 134: II. Andante
06. Concerto in E Minor for strings and basso continuo, RV 134: III. Allegro
07. Concerto in D Minor for oboe, strings and basso continuo: I. Andante e spiccato
08. Concerto in D Minor for oboe, strings and basso continuo: II. Adagio
09. Concerto in D Minor for oboe, strings and basso continuo: III. Presto
10. Sinfonia in D Major for strings, 2 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo: I. Allegro-Andante-Adagio
11. Sinfonia in D Major for strings, 2 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo: II. Allegro
12. Concerto in B flat major for violin, oboe, strings and basso continuo, after RV 364, RV Anh.18: I. [Allegro]
13. Concerto in B flat major for violin, oboe, strings and basso continuo, after RV 364, RV Anh.18: II. Grave
14. Concerto in B flat major for violin, oboe, strings and basso continuo, after RV 364, RV Anh.18: III. Air
15. Concerto in B flat major for violin, oboe, strings and basso continuo, after RV 364, RV Anh.18: IV. Allegro
16. Concerto "per Sua Altezza Reale di Sassonia" in G Minor "for violino solo, oboe solo, oboe secondo, due flauti, archi e: I. Allegro
17. Concerto "per Sua Altezza Reale di Sassonia" in G Minor "for violino solo, oboe solo, oboe secondo, due flauti, archi e: II. Larghetto
18. Concerto "per Sua Altezza Reale di Sassonia" in G Minor "for violino solo, oboe solo, oboe secondo, due flauti, archi e: III. Allegro
19. Overture in D Major from "La Stravaganza" for strings and basso continuo, Op. 4: I. Allegro assai
20. Overture in D Major from "La Stravaganza" for strings and basso continuo, Op. 4: II. Largo sempre piano
21. Overture in D Major from "La Stravaganza" for strings and basso continuo, Op. 4: III. Presto
22. Concerto in C Major for oboe, strings and basso continuo, RV 450: I. Allegro molto
23. Concerto in C Major for oboe, strings and basso continuo, RV 450: II. Larghetto
24. Concerto in C Major for oboe, strings and basso continuo, RV 450: III. Allegro


This disc is an invitation to explore one of the great attractions of Venice in the Baroque era, the famous 'ospedali'. These were establishments that took care of and educated children and adolescents. In the early 18 century almost all the leading Venetian musicians were linked with the musical activities of one of the ospedali. The best-known among them was Antonio Vivaldi: just 25 when he was hired as violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pietà. Among the residents of the Pietà was a girl named Pellegrina, for whom Vivaldi wrote many of his oboe concertos. Accompanied by her colleagues of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, oboist Xenia Löffler not only breathes new life into a selection of concertos by the ‘Red Priest', but also several by his emulators, among them a contemporary composer, Uri Rom.

The programme begins with a concerto composed by Rom [b. 1969] in 2013 to a commission from the Akademie für Alte Musik and dedicated to Xenia Löffler, one of today’s leading oboists. 'Concerto L’Olimpiade' is a sort of pasticcio based on works by Antonio Vivaldi and Carlo Tessarini. The first movement is based on the aria ‘Siam navi all’onde algenti’ from the opera' L’Olimpiade'. The second movement reflects the reception of the Italian style by J. S. Bach. The finale takes as its models a movement from a violin concerto by Vivaldi (RV 172) and a movement from a violin concerto by Tessarini. The solo part and the formal layout of the movement are new.

Since 2001 Xenia Löffler has been a member and principal oboist of the Akademie für Alte Musik, appearing regularly on international concert platforms as a soloist with that orchestra and with Collegium 1704 (Prague), the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle and the orchestra of the Halle Handel Festival.

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