Antonio Vivaldi: Quattro sonate per due violini

Featuring

Cecilia Gelland
Martin Gelland
Duo Gelland
Antonio Vivaldi

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Composer Biography

Antonio Vivaldi, like his father Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, was a great violinist and dedicated most of his instrumental output to the violin.

Compositional Technique

A notable feature of these sonatas is their three-movement form, breaking from the more common four-movement Corellian model.

Composition History

These four sonatas by Vivaldi were not published during his lifetime; their manuscripts are preserved in the 'Renzo Giordano' collection at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Turin.

Performer Biography

Duo Gelland, comprised of spouses Cecilia and Martin Gelland, was founded in 1994 and has received and premiered over 300 dedications from composers worldwide.

Compositional Technique

Vivaldi systematically practiced 'Ars Combinandi', recombining and reworking his own musical materials into new forms, a process compared to Venetian painters like Canaletto.

Instruments

For this recording, Cecilia and Martin Gelland play formidable 18th-century Italian violins: a Giovanni Baptista Gabbrielli from 1750 and a Giovanni Baptista Rogeri from 1703.

Interpretation

Duo Gelland's interpretation draws inspiration from the free and rhapsodic style of Roy Goodman, as well as from early 18th-century Venetian painting and the body language of artists like Sebastiano Ricci.