Lautten Compagney Berlin - New Vivaldi

The award-winning lautten compagney Berlin performs Antonio Vivaldi on the German harmonia mundi label, opening up exciting new perspectives. The album "New Vivaldi" will be released in October 2022. in 1678 Antonio Vivaldi saw the light of day in Venice. And just a few years later, the young violin virtuoso would become one of Europe's most celebrated composers. It is hard to believe that his work was almost forgotten after his death in 1741. But since the Vivaldi renaissance that began in the 20th century, he has been one of the most frequently performed composers of all. This is due in no small part to his world-famous hit, his "Four Seasons." As one of the leading baroque ensembles, the lautten compagney Berlin has also had Vivaldi in its repertoire for a long time. Since the musicians around artistic director Wolfgang Katschner always implement exciting sound dialogues with other styles and cultures in their baroque projects, an exciting, musically multilingual Vivaldi album has now been created, which will be released by deutsche harmonia mundi in October. There are influences from jazz and blues as well as from world music, especially from the Arabian region. And right at the beginning of this Vivaldi update, the recorders in "Summer" from the "Four Seasons" transform into a wonderfully chirping and warbling chorus of birds. For "New Vivaldi," individual movements were selected not only from the "Four Seasons" cycle, but also from other instrumental concertos, stage and church works. Ensemble members Bo Wiget and Martin Ripper have created arrangements that are entirely tailored to the special instrumentation of the lautten compagney Berlin; that is, to a baroque orchestra enriched with saxophone and numerous percussion effects. The orchestration, the amount of improvisation, the tempo and the arrangement of the movements are comparatively free. The high respect for the originator is not lost in the process. On the contrary: with their arrangements, the lautten compagney Berlin puts old compositions into a new, contemporary context. Antonio Vivaldi's music has never been heard and experienced like this before!

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