指揮：梅田 俊明 Toshiaki Umeda
読売日本交響楽団 Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
トランペット：田島 勤 & 長谷川 潤
Vivaldi - Trumpet Concerto for 2 Trumpets. Japan
Allegro 0:13
Andante 3:31
Allegro 4:20
Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets in C major, RV 537, is a concerto for two trumpets, string orchestra and basso continuo in three movements, believed to have been composed in the 1720s. It is Vivaldi's only trumpet concerto. It was published by Ricordi in 1950 after its manuscript was found in a Turin library.
The concerto is structured in three movements:
Allegro
Largo or Andante
Allegro
The outer movements display the virtuosity of the soloists in passage-work and fanfares. The two trumpets usually play together in the solo passages, but at times also play with the strings in the tutti parts.
In the first movement, the strings modulate to a minor key, which returns to the major when the trumpets re-enter. In the middle movement of only six measures, the trumpets are silent, with both the style and harmony being unsuitable for the instrument. It is in a languid mood, set with sustained chords from the strings. The third movement, beginning with fanfare arpeggios in canon from the soloists, is in a triple metre and brings the work to a vigorous conclusion.