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With this Volume 22, Opus 111 continues its ambitious project to record more than 450 Vivaldi manuscripts housed in the National University Library at Turin.
This is Vivaldi’s second opera (at least that we know of), performed for the first time in 1714, the same year that his amazing set
While his contemporaries’ opinions were mixed regarding Vivaldi’s compositional abilities, all were in agreement that as a violinist his skill and expertise were unsurpassed. In
The Accademia Bizantina continues its cycle of Vivaldi’s celebrated L’Estro armonico (type Q8548 in Search Reviews for a review of Concertos 1-6) with equal stylishness
This 2-disc set is a reconstruction of a “let’s pretend” event, described in the booklet as “a service of Solemn Vespers for the Assumption of
There’s nothing inherently wrong with trying to reconstruct a centuries’-old religious service or celebration, using music that anecdotal or musicological evidence suggests would have been
Apart from one very serious problem, this is an excellent recital. No composer during the 18th century–and few since–wrote more taxing music for the bassoon
This is a thrilling disc. Each of the four motets is scored for soprano and strings, and a glance at the texts gives you some
Paris-born Pierre Fournier (1906-1986) was the leading French cellist of his time, renowned for his elegant playing of the standard repertoire and for his ties
Nigel Kennedy and friends deserve credit for attempting to go beyond The Four Seasons and introduce listeners to some of the countless equally fine concertos
