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Violin concerto in C major, Op. 9 No. 1 (RV 181a)
Antonio Vivaldi
From La Cetra ('The Lyre', a set of 12 concerti published by Vivaldi as his Opus 9.)
It was the first movement of this concerto that really caught my attention. Vivaldi's music, like that of Mozart and some others, has been shown to have beneficial effects on health, and I think this first movement shows it, from the immediately satisfying pulsations of the syncopated yet balanced rhythm, and the repetitive (but nor boringly so) treatment of the thematic material. Realising that the other two movements, also fine and typical Vivaldi, would still be under 10 minutes, I decided to post the whole concerto in a single video - enjoy!
PS. Stravinsky, I believe, once said something along the lines that Vivaldi didn't write 500 concerti - he wrote the same concerto 500 times. But to me, Vivaldi's inspiration was wide and varied, and many times he gives you the greatest satisfaction through means you could never have imagined yourself. We can um and ah at how Beethoven crafts his works etc., but even something like the delightful first movement of this concerto makes it hard to believe something like this could be thought up in someone's head, from scratch. I have to say that I wholeheartedly believe Stravinsky was wrong (he cannot be entirely blamed - Vivaldi's vast and varied output was far less known back then) and I hope to show the variety of Vivaldi's music (yet somehow also recognisably his at the same time) through my videos over time.
PPS. I just wrote all this, went to the upload page, confirmed English as my default language and it went back to this page, blank, again!! Argh!
Violin concerto in C major, Op. 9 No. 1 (RV 181a)
Antonio Vivaldi
From La Cetra ('The Lyre', a set of 12 concerti published by Vivaldi as his Opus 9.)
It was the first movement of this concerto that really caught my attention. Vivaldi's music, like that of Mozart and some others, has been shown to have beneficial effects on health, and I think this first movement shows it, from the immediately satisfying pulsations of the syncopated yet balanced rhythm, and the repetitive (but nor boringly so) treatment of the thematic material. Realising that the other two movements, also fine and typical Vivaldi, would still be under 10 minutes, I decided to post the whole concerto in a single video - enjoy!
PS. Stravinsky, I believe, once said something along the lines that Vivaldi didn't write 500 concerti - he wrote the same concerto 500 times. But to me, Vivaldi's inspiration was wide and varied, and many times he gives you the greatest satisfaction through means you could never have imagined yourself. We can um and ah at how Beethoven crafts his works etc., but even something like the delightful first movement of this concerto makes it hard to believe something like this could be thought up in someone's head, from scratch. I have to say that I wholeheartedly believe Stravinsky was wrong (he cannot be entirely blamed - Vivaldi's vast and varied output was far less known back then) and I hope to show the variety of Vivaldi's music (yet somehow also recognisably his at the same time) through my videos over time.
PPS. I just wrote all this, went to the upload page, confirmed English as my default language and it went back to this page, blank, again!! Argh!
