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Familiar repertoire - unusual arrangements
If there is one area where modern musicians have disregarded 18th-century practice, it is in reverence for the static score. Back in the day, music was constantly revised for new performances. But today, we invariably stay glued to those versions that history has preserved for us.
"I question that," says the Albany Consort's Jonathan Salzedo. "The idea of this program is to revitalize a very well-known work. This is nothing the do with the quality of the music, which is already the highest, hence its huge popularity, now as well as in its day. But at the time of writing, it was plagiarized, and I want to indulge in some plagiarization of my own.
The work is Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Vivaldi himself was a master of reuse, and my version of Winter reworks the concerto for the same chamber ensemble that Vivaldi frequently employed (recorder, oboe, violin, bassoon and continuo). Other composers reworked or extended this and other music by Vivaldi, and based on what I know, my re-workings of Spring, Summer and Autumn speculate what Bach, Rameau and Handel might have done with Vivaldi's material.
We complete the program with a much loved Bach work most often performed as a concerto for violin, two recorders and strings (Brandenburg Concerto No 4). It is not so well known that Bach himself re-worked this piece, replacing the virtuoso violin part with a virtuoso harpsichord part. The harpsichord version is the version we will present."
ALBANY CONSORT: Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord; Marion Rubinstein, recorder; Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, David Wilson, and Rachel Hurwitz, violins; Katherine Hagen, viola; Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, cello; Roy Whelden, violone; Brandon Labadie and Glenda Bates, oboes; Georgeanne Banker, bassoon
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