Vivaldi - Concerto for Trumpet and Oboe in C Major, RV 537

This Double Trumpet Concerto is a one of the composer’s most popular works, but we do not know for whom it was written, when it was written, or where it might have been performed in the composer’s lifetime. It was probably not a work for his pupils at the Pieta, as the instruction there was limited to strings, keyboards, and voice. The source of this concerto is a single manuscript located in the Renzo Giordano Collection at the National Library of Turin, a large gathering of manuscripts believed to preserve a large portion of the composer’s personal collection of his own manuscripts. The second movement (Largo) is also used in the Violin Concerto in
C major, RV 110, another undated manuscript in the same collection.
The outer movements are appropriately flashy and fanfare-like. Both are marked Allegro and propelled by vigorous rhythmic support from the strings. The trumpets usually play together in the solo passages and add interesting color to the strings when playing along in the tuttis. The brief six-bar Largo serves as a short bridge between the two outer movements, with a melodic violin solo; in this movement the principal soloists are not heard, allowing them time to adjust their instruments. The third movement, with its ascending arpeggios and imitation between the solo instruments, dashes forward vigorously and emphatically in triple meter, leading to the final ritornello.
In a practice that was common in the Baroque era, for this performance one of the trumpets parts is being played by the oboe.
Elin Frazier, trumpet. Trumpet (c. 1840-1844) by Charles Mahillon; Sarah Davol, Baroque oboe; Thomas DiSarlo, violin.
The original performance of this concerto was at Vivaldissimo 2020 at St Katherine of Siena in Wayne, in November 2020.

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watching this 2024 it feels so weird, u know what i mean

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These wind instruments take a lot of wind, their players have to have the lung of a whale!