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Antonio Vivaldi: Pellegrina's Delight
Sonatas & Chamber Music for Oboe


Gail Hennessey and Nicholas Parle
Oboe and Organ & Harpsichord

with

Rodolfo Richter - Violin
Sally Holman - Bassoon
Katherine Sharman - 'cello
Pater McCarthy - Violine

"their meticulous musicological approach ... is brought to the rendering of these scintillating works"

Frédéric Delaméa, Goldberg
 

 
   
     
       
       

Signum Records is delighted to announce  the release of Gail Hennessy (baroque oboe) and Nicholas Parle (organ and harpsichord)'s second collaborative disc on Signum Records.

Pellegrina’s Delight celebrates Vivaldi’s contribution to oboe repertoire in the early eighteenth century. Vivaldi wrote at least 16 concerti for solo oboe, but in this recording we offer an overview of Vivaldi’s prominent use of the solo oboe in his chamber music. The disc also provides a fascinating illustration of Vivaldi’s stylistic development between c.1705 and c.1720.

The Quartet Sonata in C major (RV 779) was written during the first decade of Vivaldi’s activity as a composer, when he was serving as a violin teacher at the Ospedale della Piet in Venice. Selected girls were admitted - after audition - to the musical establishment. Vivaldi made a note in this manuscript of the names of the four female musicians who were chosen to perform the sonata. They are Pellegrina (oboe), Prudenza (violin), Lucietta (organ) and Candida (chalumeau).

Other works featured on this disc are the Sonata for oboe and continuo in C minor, RV 53, the Sonata in G minor, RV 28 the Trio-sonata in E minor, Op. 1 no. 2, RV 67, the Concerto for flute, violin and bassoon in G minor, RV 106 (presented with the oboe taking the part of first treble instrument, the Sonata in B-flat major, RV 34 and the Sonata a 4 in C major, RV 801.
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Gail Hennessy and Nicholas Parle
Release date: 23ed June 2003
Order code: SIGCD037
Barcode: 635212053725
 
Sonata in C minor, RV 53
1 Adagio [2:28]
2 Allegro [2:24]
3 Andante [3:59]
4 Allegro [3:10]
Sonata in C major, RV 779
5 Andante [3:40]
6 Allegro [3:59]
7 Largo e cantabile [2:19]
8 Allegro [4:17]
Sonata in G minor, RV 28
9 [Adagio] [2:28]
10 [Allegro] [2:15]
11 Largo [2:51]
12 Allegro [2:12]
Trio-sonata in E minor, Op.1 no.2, RV 67
13 Grave [2:10]
14 Corrente Allegro
 [2:14]
15 Giga Allegro [2:05]
16 Gavotta Allegro [1:00]
Concerto in G minor, RV 106
17 [Allegro] [2:59]
18 Largo
 [4:26]
19 Allegro [2:39]
Sonata in Bb, RV 34
20 Adagio [1:29]
21 Allegro [2:17]
22 Largo [1:30]
23 Allegro [2:10]
Sonata a 4 in C major, RV 801
24 Largo [4:15]
25 Allegro [2:18]
26 Largo [2:40]
27 Allegro [2:39]
     
 
Total running time: [75:13]

 

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