Vivaldi clearly spotted the instrument's massive solo potential though you don't write thirty concertos for an instrument you've written off as a dud, even if you do have an orphanage of girls clamouring for music. The cello was very much in its early days as a solo instrument, more accustomed to providing the bass line than to taking centre stage this might explain why none of these concertos were published in Vivaldi's lifetime, surviving only in manuscript form. The recipients were the female orphans of the Ospedale della Pieta where he taught the violin and directed the orchestra, as well as for colleagues and patrons. Vivaldi's cello concertos date from the early 1700s through to the late 1730s. This disc of Vivaldi's cello concertos is Chang's first foray into recording Baroque repertoire, and she plays with all the intensity that it is a characteristic of her recordings of nineteenth and twentieth century music. …It is in the colours and forms that he creates''.

Vivaldi, for Han-Na Chang, represents the ''liveliness of harmony and rhythm.

Vivaldi cello concerto in a minor