A.Vivaldi-Concerto per due violini e due celli RV564-Biondi-Europa Galante

[BBRENTTAGHAPP]

this music is extremely sexy and passionate. vivaldi <3

[Kyousuke687]

Great video. I love this group. I have to say though, after looking at comments on MANY classical postings, I am really starting to get a kick out of everyone busting out the European languages to complement them, lol.

[Centelles80]

non si sente nulla

[Ivetitaful]

Bellísimo! Interpretaciones de escalofríos!

[omoshiroidayo]

BARIOLAGE

iloveit

[DiVeronica]

europa galante is awesome!

[bretonvampir]

simplemente hermoso!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rometube]

sorry but today there's one way to play barroque and that's tha PASTA WAY. Italian, of course.

[alincielo]

@rometube Oh please, please: stop thinking Italia=pasta!!! Stooooop!!!

[rometube]

@alincielo mhhh, have you ever tasted the real pasta?

[Kyousuke687]

@rometube Is it really so hard to put the "e" in "the" instead of an "a"?...

[leonora0210]

Biondi et al, sind am besten!!!!!! Ich libe ihre wunderbare musik....

[xyaqua]

Biondi et al create a new world of music. none such we have ever heard before. the composers would surely fall in awe- Such ornate exquisiteness with such subdued execution... This is surely beyond any expectation of the composer...

Europa Galante Uber alles!

[antoniojarf]

realmente muy bueno...! excelente =)

[webeurope35]

Bllisimo sonido.Excelencia de Fabio Biondi con Europa Galante..GRACIAS!!!!

[BBRENTTAGHAPP]

i love the 3rd movement!

[TheMarquelo]

Que increible concierto, llena de energia . Fabuloso, Antonio Vivaldi es un genio. Me deja absorto totalmente.

[leonora0210]

I like how they are playing true barroque, with the ornaments and improvisation, and make it look so damn easy.

[MozartIsFancylalala]

AWSEM CELLO PICCOLO!!!!!!!  Great job

[formaggioneone]

cello with 5 strings

[Eushayson]

I have a recording of them playing this, but it's quite something actually seeing them. What a fantastic old church, too!

Watching Biondi churn out those Italian notes is amazing. He's truly one of the greats in Baroque violin performance. Thank you for posting this.

[strangerheart]

...just awesome!

[maxotti]

Who are the soloists?

[ilpreterosso76]

First violin and direction is Fabio Biondi and first cello is Maurizio Naddeo, they are, according to Biondi himself, the bicephal leaders of Europa Galante.

[61550LizziE]

An exquisite masterpiece.

[Ensilope]

the improvisation at 3:01 is very atonishing!

[Coui0112358]

....Vivaldi a german?........ oh my God...

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@Coui0112358 yes, Anton Vivaelden lol

[090513102]

Is it gut strings on the cellos? Sounds like it

[PeriodinstrumentfaN]

yes they're gut... :-)

[TheCrazyCello]

It's gut strings on all the instruments.

If you look, you can see that the A and the D on the cellos are plain gut and the G and the C have a single winding :)

[animeviolalord]

You know what? I'd like to see a duet with Biondi and Giuliano Carmignola.  That would be nice!

[xyaqua]

I love the image of that... il prete rosso ( the red priest (Vivaldi was a red haired german)) would love the arguments we have over his music... vivaldian music is so much more a feeling and spiritual expression than it was an art of music...

To origionally interpret the usic in any form is a blessing beyond peerage.

[Tyrfingr]

Cannot praise Vivaldi enough for his works.

[robynsalain]

une pure merveille d'entre les merveilles !

[miquelegiorgio]

¡¡Excelente!! Muchas gracias por compartir este video musical de Vivaldi.

[OriginalMoonbeam]

enjoyed it so much..beautiful instruments too...love the fingerboard on his violin

[PestisNigra]

Well, it is doubtless a good performance. What I do not like sometimes in Biondi is his "testosteron driven" performing of concertos. Maybe it is authentic, I do not know. What I hear is, that he generates a lot of " higher order harmonics" which he cannot damp, because of the speed of his play resulting in some whinny sound. I think, that Rachel Podger, J.W. Vriend or even Kennedy have solved this problem. Europe Galante is excellent : react on everything.

[xyaqua]

Compare this with other recordings by contemporary performers and conductors: at first blush it seems to lack the soul and intensity of other interpretations. But i noticed for the first time subtle patterns and connections i never noticed before listening to this recording. This is the real gem of the galante style of playing, allowing the composition to really shine in its own right!

[MusicLover2840]

Are they playing 5-stringed cellos???

[pianoscantalk]

they're of the viola da gamba family

[perronid]

negative...

this cello picollo

very common on XVIII century , the E aditional string makes cello picollo execute violin pieces easier

[leonora0210]

oh yeah

[annakim925]

Oh~no~. This is just concerto for strings not concerto grosso. I posted this video few month ago. :)

[firebreathone]

great