This minimized the number of male teachers, contracted one year at a time, in the all-female environment. Music education at the Venetian ospedali was largely based on a peer-teaching system, in which an accomplished senior student known as a figlia di cori ( cori meaning musical establishment as a whole, not just singers) would be assigned to teach younger students. To this day, a marble plaque embedded in the wall of a later church of Santa Maria della Pietà invokes the warning of Pope Paul III in 1548 of dire consequences for parents abandoning children there if they could afford to raise them. Founded in 1336, the Pietà was unique in being both single-sex and accepting infant girls born both in and out of wedlock, provided the child was small enough to fit in a box near the door. Aside from his forty-six operas, most of his five hundred-plus concertos, ninety solo sonatas, and dozens of choral works resulted from his thirty-year association as teacher, conductor, and composer for the orphans in the Ospedale della Pietà, one of four such institutions with prominent musical establishments in Venice. III.The vast majority of Antonio Vivaldi’s prolific compositions resulted from his various responsibilities in his long teaching career. From L’estro armonico (Con violino principale con altro per eco in lontano).Concerto Grosso in A minor Op.3 No.8 ‘The Echo’ P2 (RV522)*.Concerto for Two Violins in D minor P281 (RV514)**.Concerto for Two Violins in C minor P436 (RV509)**.Concerto for Two Violins in D major P189 (RV512)**.Concerto for Two Violins in G minor P366 (RV517)**.Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BWV1043*.The playing of the two soloists is, needless to say, the height of efficiency.” (Gramophone) (Vivaldi): … the harpsichord comes to life with a vengeance, being especially enterprising in the finale. “The soloists play on the string almost throughout, with much less staccato than most listeners will be used to … and there is some delightful and assured playing all through. In the Bach Double Concerto, father and son are suitably contrasted in timbre and the performance of the great slow movement is Elysian.” (Penguin Guide 3 stars) “Oistrakh’s justly renowned performances … the playing is peerless.
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