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Grandissima Gravita: Pisendel, Tartini, Verachini, Vivaldi
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Label: Channel Classics
Cat No: CCSSA39217
Barcode: 0723385392170
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 22nd September 2017
It’s not often worth devoting many words of a CD review to the contents of the CD’s booklet. However, what the Baroque violinist and musicologist Mark Seow has come up with for Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque’s ‘Grandissima Gravita’ is nothing short of genius: a theatre script, the action of which sees the four violinist-composer stars of the album – Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Tartini, Francesco Maria Veracini and Johann Georg Pisendel – reclining tipsily on divans in heaven (yes, really) for their annual wine-fuelled reunion. ... The performances themselves are as stunning as the notes are imaginative, all four musicians both completely under the music’s skin and under each other’s, and playing as a smoothly dovetailed unit. ... Programmed and presented with flair, and faultlessly performed, this is a listening experience of unbridled pleasure. An exceptional album. 
Podger, inevitably, is the star, but ultimately the disc's compulsive spell is down to the triumph of ensemble chemistry. Even the humblest of cello lines is elevated beyond functionality into something expressive and integral to the overall effect. Bewitching. 
