Dorian Recordings
DOR-90118
FOR ORGAN
JEAN GUILLOU, ORGAN
Recorded at the Great Kleuker-Steinmeyer organ
of the Tonhalle, Zürich
The genius of a composer like Vivaldi can most readily be discerned and analyzed by establishing a certain physiology of music. Stravinsky's opinion that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 150 times expressed an erroneous point of view: I would say that Vivaldi wrote a single Concerto that began with his first work and ended the day he laid his pen down for the last time. This single, uninterrupted Concerto was the Concerto of Life. Indeed, the distinctive characteristic of this music lies in the fact that it is in no way an intellectual speculation but rather a spirited description, an "impassioned shorthand" to use Edmond de Goncourt's phrase, a dynamic dissipation, a sort of unbroken conversation or gesture solely motivated by what might be called the joy of being.
- Jean Guillou - Translated by Wyley L. Powell
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Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596 (Bach-Vivaldi) [1] First Movement:----------- [2] Grave [3] Fuga [4] Largo e spicatto [5] Fifth Movement:----------- Concerto in C Major, BWV 594 (Bach-Vivaldi) [6] First Movement:----------- [7] Recitativo - Adagio [8] Allegro Concerto in D Minor, (Guillou-Vivaldi) [9] Allegro non molto [10] Andante [11] Minuet Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593 (Bach-Vivaldi) [12] First Movement:----------- [13] Adagio [14] Allegro Concerto in D Major, (Guillou-Vivaldi) [15] Allegro [16] Larghetto [17] Allegro |
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