Italian Oboe Concertos, Vol. 2

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Cat No: 8554772

Release Date: 10 January 2001

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 636943477229

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Italian Oboe Concertos, Vol. 2

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Giovanni Platti (before 1692-1763)Concerto in G minor for oboe, strings and continuo[1] Allegro[2] Largo[3] AllegroAntonio Salieri (1750-1825)Concerto in C major for flute, oboe and orchestra[4] Allegro spirituoso[5] Largo[6] AllegrettoCarlo Besozzi (1738- after 1798)Concerto No.1 in C major for oboe and orchestra[7] Allegro[8] Andante[9] AllegrettoFrancesco Antonio Rosetti (c1750-1792)[10] Rondo in F majorITALIAN OBOE CONCERTOSGiovanni Platti (before 1692-1763)Oboe Concerto in G minorAntonio Salieri (1750-1825)Concerto in C major for flute and oboeCarlo Besozzi (1738- after 1798)Oboe Concerto in C majorFrancesco Antonio Rosetti (c1750-1792)Giovanni Benedetto Platti seems to have been born in Padua or Venice some time before 1692. His presence in Venice as a musician is recorded in 1711 and his father Carlo Platti served as a musician in the musical establishment of the Basilica of San Marco as a player of the violetta, an instrument variously identified as a viola, violin or treble viol. In 1722 Giovanni Platti was one of a group of musicians led by Fortunato Chelleri, a musician of German paternity, who had been appointed Hofkapellmeister to the Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn at Würzburg and the following year Platti married a singer in the court musical establishment, future mother of his eight children. Platti, recognised as a virtuoso oboist, was employed as a player of a wide variety of instruments, including also the violin, cello, flute and harpsichord. With the death of the ruler in 1724, the musical establishment was apparently dissolved by his successor, Christoph von Hutten, although Philipp Franz’s brother, Count Rudolf Franz Erwein, employed the Würzburg court musicians at his residence in Wiesentheid. The Hofkapelle was revived in 1729 in more magnificent form under the Prince-Bishop Friedrich Carl, with some 46 musicians, among whom was Platti, so employed until his death in 1763, his likeness preserved in a fresco for the episcopal Residence by the painter Tiepolo.Versatile as a composer, Platti left church music, harpsichord sonatas and concertos, cello concertos and sonatas and a variety of other instrumental music, in much of this representing the transition from the baroque to the classical. His Oboe Concerto in G minor starts with a lively orchestral ritornello, leading to the entry of the oboe with an elaboration of the same material, which is passed from soloist to orchestra in continuing alternation. The orchestra provides an introductory foretaste of the moving D minor oboe aria that forms the slow movement. This is followed by a movement that brings a surprise in a sudden pause before the orchestra provides a further brief introduction to the solo entry, a break in the flow of the music that recurs before the last orchestral phrase. The thematic material provides the basis for modulation and elaboration in music that suggests that Platti has been seriously undervalued by following g
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