Music takes us to different times and places. More than painting or literature, it inhabits and transforms places. And all this through sound that actually happens. When it comes to a century-old repertoire, different lives and scenarios are projected. We are, therefore, in the 18th century. First, in Venice, with two emblematic figures of the Italian city. The concertos for five instrumental parts composed by Albinoni in the 1720s were a regular feature in private salons, academic circles, and the majestic palaces lining the canals—the Solistas da Metropolitana entrust the solo parts here to the oboe and trumpet. Antonio Vivaldi, in turn, dedicated more than thirty concertos to a virtuoso bassoonist working at the Ospedale della Pietà, a convent that housed young women of uncertain parentage or from poor families. In the case of the famous RV 484, beyond the vertigo of the arpeggios, the lyrical passages are broad and ornate, with stormy bursts in the last movement. We then head to the Land of a Thousand Lakes – not Finland, but the one located in the Mecklenburg region of northeastern Germany. It was on the shores of Lake Schwerin that, three decades later, Johann Wilhelm Hertel composed this Concerto for Oboe and Trumpet.
From Venice to the Thousand Lakes
Solistas da Metropolitana
T. Albinoni Concerto a Cinque, Op. 9/3 (oboe, trumpet, and strings)
A. Vivaldi Concerto for Bassoon, RV 484
J. W. Hertel Concerto for Oboe and Trumpet
Sally Dean oboe
Lurdes Carneiro bassoon
João Moreira trumpet
Sérgio Silva harpsichord
Nuno Rodrigues, Nonna Manicheva violins
Leonel Andrade viola
Nuno Abreu cello
Vladimir Kouznetsov double bass
