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Imagine sitting for nearly two uninterrupted hours listening solely to sacred choral music by Vivaldi. Normally I would think of that as something that should
This was Vivaldi’s first opera; it appeared in 1713. (He wrote 93 others.) There are now four available recordings: this one; one on Brilliant Classics
If you’re going to foist yet another recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on the world market, it had better be good–really good. And this one
This disc was a pleasant surprise, arriving more or less out of nowhere and making its case very effectively within the first minute of the
La verita in cimento (“Truth put to the test”), dating from 1720, is a superb, stageworthy work about a Sultan (Mamud), his wife (Rustena), his
Quebec contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux scored a top rating on her earlier Analekta disc of Handel Italian cantatas (type Q5991 in Search Reviews), and in that
In the disc’s liner notes we’re urged to judge Vivaldi’s place “in the pantheon of great baroque composers” on the “stand-alone quality of his music”
Why transcribe Vivaldi’s ubiquitous Four Seasons for solo piano when a gazillion recordings of the orchestral original can be had? That’s a question pianist and
As we come to the end of Hyperion’s ambitious and critically acclaimed Vivaldi sacred music project–one more volume to go–Robert King introduces us not only
This appealing new recording of The Four Seasons recalls (in period-instrument terms) the elegant, stylish recordings of I Musici and other top-notch Italian chamber orchestras.
