Tune of the Day: Cantabile
Il Gardellino Vivaldi Wikipedia
Dear Twitpic Community - thank you for all the wonderful photos you have taken over the years. We have now placed Twitpic in an archived state. La nota raccolta “Le quattro stagioni” di Antonio Vivaldi, concerti solisti per violino, consta di quattro componimenti: Primavera, Estate, Autunno e Inverno. Questi fungono da apertura all’opera “Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’invenzione”, realizzata nel 1725 e composta da 12 concerti.
Vivaldi Il Gardellino Flute
The Opus 10 concertos constitute the most significant repertoire that Vivaldi composed for flute. In Concerto No. 3 in D major, RV 428, the Italian composer demonstrates his perfect understanding of the instrument, writing trills, leaps, rapid florid passages, repeated notes, dotted rhythms, all of which evoke the warblings of a real goldfinch (a “gardellino” in Italian).
Vivaldi Il Gardellino Cantabile
Today we present the second movement from this concerto, marked Cantabile (‛singable’). It features the flute in a beautiful cantilena in siciliano rhythm over a rocking accompaniment.