La tempesta di mare (flute concerto)
La tempesta di mare ("The Storm at Sea"), a flute concerto in F major (RV 433; P. 261), is the first of Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10 by Antonio Vivaldi, published in the late 1720s. La tempesta di mare may also refer to two earlier versions of the same concerto, RV 98, a concerto da camera (chamber concerto) featuring the flute, from which Vivaldi derived the concerto grosso RV 570.
La tempesta di mare may also refer to the
History
Vivaldi helped to bring the concerto to a mainstream form, not only by expanding on ritornello form, but by emphasizing the slow movements of concertos, which were in a two part binary form. Solo instruments that Vivaldi wrote concertos for include violin, bassoon, cello, oboe, viola d'amore, flute and mandolin.[1] He also wrote ensemble concertos (concerto grosso and/or chamber concerto), where three or more soloists participate, which number over 30 written. Vivaldi had an extensive influence on the concerto genre, helping to pioneer the structure, expanding the boundaries of the genre, and showing that any instrument could have a concerto.[citation needed]
Vivaldi's contemporaries and predecessors such as
Giving a musical impression of a storm was a popular theme in
According to Federico Maria Sardelli the chamber concerto version of La tempesta di mare, RV 98, was possibly written for Ignazio Sieber, during the time in which he worked with the composer at the Ospedale della Pietà from 1713 to 1716.[3] This means that this version of the concerto may have been the earliest flute concerto ever composed, and also the first flute piece to include the problematic high F6.[6] Sardelli's conclusions, if correct, would overturn "the received scholarly view that, rather than writing for the recorder in the first two or three decades of the eighteenth century, then switching over to the flute, Vivaldi already preferred the flute in the 1710s and did not start writing for the recorder until the early 1720s".[11]
Structure
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The movements of the concerto are:
Reception
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RV 433 is not among the five concertos Vivaldi composed for the recorder (RV 441–445). Being one of the 14 concertos Vivaldi wrote for traverso (including one for two traversos), the concerto is nonetheless often performed as a recorder concerto, like many of these other traverso concertos. Thus it is for instance included in Dan Laurin's Recorder Concertos CD.[12] There are dozens of recordings of the concerto, performed on the traverso as well as the recorder, for instance by Jean-Pierre Rampal in the 1960s,[13] by Frans Brüggen and by Barthold Kuijken with La Petite Bande.[14]
References
- ^ Sadie, Stanley "Vivaldi, Antonio" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: 1980, pp. 31-45
- ^ Sadie, Stanley, "Recorder" in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. London: 1984. pp. 205-215
- ^ a b Sardelli 2007, 138
- ISBN 9781843836704
- ^ (score:) Dover 2002, p. 172.
- ^ a b Powell 2008, 121
- ^ Selfridge-Field 1978, 336
- ^ a b Talbot 2001, Work-List
- ^ Talbot 2004, 1021
- ^ Talbot 1993, p. 121.
- ^ Lasocki 2008, 496
- ^ Dan Laurin and Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble. Antonio Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos. Bis, 1994
- OCLC 42524796
- ^ Concert voor fluit en strijkorkest RV.433, op.10, nr.1 in F gr.t., "La tempesta di mare" at www
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Sources
Score editions
- Le Cène c.1728: OCLC 658705889
- Dover 2002: ISBN 9780486422435.
Other
- Lasocki, David. "Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder. By Federico Maria Sardelli. Translated by Michael Talbot. Burlington, VT: Ashgate in association with Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi/Fondazione "Giorgio Cini", 2007. [xxii, 336 p. ISBN 9780754637141". [Review] Notes, second series, 64, no. 3 (March 2008): 496–98.
- Powell, Ardal. "Vivaldi's Flutes: Federico Maria Sardelli, Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder, trans. by Michael Talbot (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)". Early Music 36, no. 1 (February 2008): 120–22.
- ISBN 075463714X.
- Selfridge-Field, Eleanor. "Vivaldi's Esoteric Instruments". Early Music 6, no. 3 (July 1978): 332–38.
- Talbot, Michael. Vivaldi, second edition. Master Musicians Series. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1993. Reprinted in paperback, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Talbot, Michael. "Vivaldi, Antonio (Lucio)" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001.
- Talbot, Michael. "Antonio Vivaldi. Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10, in Full Score: With Related Concertos for Other Wind Instruments. Edited with an introduction by Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, c2002. Introd., p. vii-ix; facsim. reprod., 1 p.; score, p. 1–166; the Dover edition, p. 169–76. ISBN 0-486-42243-7". Notes, second series 60, no. 4 (June 2004): 1021–24.
External links
- Recording by the San Francisco Early Music Ensemble, Voices of Music, with Hanneke van Proosdij on the recorder (official YouTube channel)
- Flute Concerto in F major, RV 433: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project