Performance Practice Review Volume 13 | Number 1 Article 9 "Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder" by Federico Sardelli Jane Bowers Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/ppr Part of the Music Practice Commons Bowers, Jane (2008) ""Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder" by Federico Sardelli," Performance Practice Review: Vol. 13: No. 1, Article 9. DOI: 10.5642/perfpr.200813.01.09 Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/ppr/vol13/iss1/9 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Claremont at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Performance Practice Review by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Book review: Sardelli, Federico Maria. Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder. Aldershot, England, and Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate Publishing in association with the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7546-3714-1. Jane Bowers Copyright © 2008 Claremont Graduate University According to Federico Maria Sardelli, much of Vivaldi’s music is performed on the wrong kind of “flute” today. This pertains particularly to Vivaldi’s chamber concertos (i.e., “works composed for diverse groups of concertante instruments . , chosen from the string and woodwind families alike,” which “reproduce in miniature the outlines of the ritornello form typical of the solo concerto” (91), but it is also true of other music of Vivaldi’s. It is, according to Sardelli, usually a case of recorder players appropriating for their instrument popular flute concertos. Is there a good reason for this in that Vivaldi’s terminology leaves something to be desired? No, according to Sardelli, who states that the “the type of flute specified by Vivaldi is always clear and unambiguous” (280).