VIVALDI: Oboe Sonatas [CD de audio] Paolo Pollastri (oboe), Ensemble J.M. Anciuti and Vivaldi

Descripción del producto This new recording in the ever growing Brilliant Classics Vivaldi discography offers an attractive set of Oboe Sonatas, for solo oboe and basso continuo (in this case a generous and colourful combination of cello, bassoon and harpsichord). Paolo Pollastri is solo oboist of the famous Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (one of Italys best and most famous orchestras). On this recording however he plays a Baroque oboe, accompanied by a Baroque ensemble, following the historically based performance practice. Pollastri did his own research collecting the oboe sonatas from various sources, and offers one apocryph sonata, formerly attributed to Chedeville, whose pastoral athmosphere perfectly fits the sweet and slightly melancholy timbre of the baroque oboe. The latest addition to Brilliant Classics ever-growing recorded catalogue of music by the asthmatic Red Priest of Venice, Antonio Vivaldi, is of oboe sonatas, played (as are most of the recordings in that catalo