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Hi there, this was performed as part of a larger concert, given by my Oxford University Alumni choir, Standish Consort. This concerto started the second half, and they began singing immediately after it finished. Saved the faff of moving twice!!

Thank you, Hans - that means a lot! 🙂

It comes from the depth of my heart, full of admiration for your marvellous playing.

We have recorded it a few years ago... It'll be posted soon we hope!

Well because all versions are actuallly written for flute. There is no recorder version (vivaldi is very specific about which instrument he wants and never specified recorder in any manuscript). So in that context it doesn't matter which version a recorder player chooses. Its a weird myth that has propagated that la notte concerto is for recorder. True, it often does sound better on recorder than flute, but we should be honest about what vivaldi specified and that's the traverso in all versions.

@@Rik77 You're not precise enough in your answer... 3 concertos were written for a small wood instrument and a piccolo traverso wasn't the obvious choice as positions are sometimes tricky compared to the sopranino recorder, so the latter was chosen as the reference for these 3 concertos, including 'Il Gardellino'. Musicologists think the are sometimes 2 versions for the same work, even 3. Vivaldi used to work the La Pietà hospital as a priest but also composer and music teacher. He may wrote a dozen concertos for one of his recorder virtuoso girls. 'La Pastorella' is quite an open one, as recorder or violin were possible. Flute is not the Italian equibalent for flauto. Flauto in the baroque era meant recorder or traverso, wood instruments and only during the last decaded of the baroque era, the word 'flute' was used to mean a 'metal flûte'. Around the year 2005, academicians found a note that on the original 443 concerto, it can be played with 'a quarta alta', so may be transcribed to fit an instrument with lower possibilities in terms of notes, so it's played with a soprano recorder instead of a sopranino one, and all orchestral parts are transcribed to the same key. This 'habit' to change keys is probably only for the recorder. Finally, 'flûte traversier' or 'traverso' versions exist only to fit the instrument possibilities, the recorder being the most agile baroque wind instrument !

Hi, thank you for your comment. We chose this version for its use of obligato bassoon line. This version fits our line up of instrumentalists and pur performance of this piece as a whole comes from a CD dedicated to Vivaldi's bassoon and recorder concertos. It seemed only fitting that we should finish with a joint piece!

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