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Contrary to who’s listed as composer here, the real author of this set of six sonatas, subtitled Il pastor fido, may not have been Vivaldi
While not quite as musically distinguished or as fancifully adorned with the characterful stylistic touches and abundance of memorable tunes we’ve heard on some other
This opera shares a plot with Scarlatti’s work of the same name, and I advise readers to see my review of that opera for a
The incomplete manuscript of this opera was discovered in Berlin only in 2002; much of the first and third acts are missing. Only 17 of
This is one of the best-ever recordings of Rodrigo’s Guitar Concertos. Mercury’s engineers achieved a rare balance between soloist and orchestra in which the guitar
Virtuoso recorder player Dan Laurin makes a very interesting point about recent performances of The Four Seasons, citing Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s revelatory demonstration of the music’s
Begin listening to this new offering of previously unrecorded Vivaldi concertos at track 7 and you’ll think the labeling must be wrong. Can this truly
The nine concertos on this disc, being composed only for strings, are essentially concertos without soloists. Even so, Vivaldi chocks them full of virtuoso writing,
Most of Vivaldi’s operas were composed for Venice, but between 1718 and 1720 he was in the employ of the Austrian governor of Mantua, and
For Ida Haendel fans, an opportunity to hear her in action is an opportunity to be savored, and this recent reissue (along with “Popular Encores”,
