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As far as I’m con­cerned, research is the fun part. I dove into the project with my cus­tom­ary gus­to - books lit­tered my desk and floor, and PDFs of mis­cel­la­neous Vival­diana deliv­ered to me by the wiz­ards of Inter­li­brary Loan sim­i­lar­ly clut­tered my lap­top screen. But my rela­tion­ship with this piece began last year, after Nad­i­na Mack­ie Jack­son did me the hon­or of ask­ing me to write the lin­er notes for the first disc in what will even­tu­al­ly be a set of all the Vival­di bas­soon con­cer­ti. I’ve played a cou­ple of Vivaldi’s oth­er con­cer­ti in the past. I hope that this will all prove use­ful to some­one out there, par­tic­u­lar­ly since this is one of the required pieces for the 2014 Meg Quigley Vival­di Com­pe­ti­tion. But first I’d like to talk a bit about my path to the piece and my meth­ods in cre­at­ing this edi­tion. You can down­load the whole thing (for free!) at the end of this post. The group attempts to revive Concert de la Loge Olympique, the esteemed French orchestra founded in 1783, which commissioned and premiered Haydn’s “Paris” Symphonies.I’m very excit­ed today to release some­thing to the world on which I’ve spent a great deal of time: a new per­form­ing edi­tion of Anto­nio Vivaldi’s Con­cer­to in G minor for bas­soon, strings, and bas­so con­tin­uo (RV 495), pre­pared using a copy of Vivaldi’s own man­u­script. Julien Chauvin founded Le Concert de la Loge, a period instrument ensemble, in 2015. In the G minor Concerto’s second movement ( Largo), which opens with a quietly wrenching dissonance, you can hear an operatic sense of melancholy and lament. In addition to composing more than five hundred concertos, ninety solo sonatas, and dozens of choral works, Vivaldi wrote at least forty-six operas.

If you have forgotten how exciting the music of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) can be, take a moment and listen to this concert performance of the Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 317, featuring French violinist Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge. As this clip demonstrates, brilliant, crackling virtuosity and searing drama lie at the heart of Vivaldi’s music.