Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder

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'Federico Maria Sardelli's comprehensive study of this sector of Vivaldi's oeuvre, first published in Italian in 2001, brings its riches to the English-speaking world through a thoughtful translation by Michael Talbot. The repertory itself is a miscellany of sonatas and concertos plus an array of obbligato parts in operas and church music, but Sardelli holds that it plays a central role in the development of wind music in late Baroque Europe. Bringing his own insights as a performer to individual works, he deduces that Vivaldi played many of the instruments for which he scored. He discusses subtleties of nomenclature and scoring, offers extensive detail of the musical sources, surveys issues of performance in several locales, and deduces from the available evidence the types and sizes of instruments intended for each of the works. The whole book is generously provided with illustrations and musical examples. In Sardelli's own phrase, it emphasizes data, documents, and commentary.? The text has been updated to accommodate recent discoveries.' Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Stanford University, USA '...this is a major contribution to Vivaldi studies...Highly recommended.' Choice '...the reader is fortunate in that so fine a book has been translated by so distinguished a scholar, a fact that itself lends it authority... The author knows the sources, he knows the music, and knows what needs to be written... if only such books existed on other distinct repertoires - and not just Vivaldi. There is such a wealth of information and understanding that I can make this a very short review, and just recommend it to all who play the music [...] and those who write about it.' Early Music Review 'Vivaldi scholar Michael Talbot has done a noble service to the English-speaking world in making this 2001 work (published in Italian) accessible... If you want to know about Vivaldi's works for flute, this is the book!' Kansas City Flute Association Newsletter '