Vivaldi the Four Seasons Baroque Festival Orch Cd Album Cover Art
X of the best Vivaldi recordings, including Gramophone Award-winners and Editor'southward Choice albums
'The French Connection'
La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler
(Avie)
'Here the three solo instruments come and go in various combinations, always pleasing us and never outstaying their welcome. They are played with skill and taste, lapsing only when the bassoon overpowers the flute in the tedious movement of RV438. The orchestral audio, as always with La Serenissima, achieves bright attractiveness and vivacity without feeling the need to pursue the taut energy of some other groups. And that's just fine...' Read the review
Vespri Solenni per la Festa dell'Assunzione di Maria Vergine
Soloists, Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini
(Naïve Opus 111)
'No, non the "Vivaldi Vespers", nor even a reconstruction of a specific event, but a kind of "sacred concert" in Vespers form, of the sort that Venetian churches in Vivaldi's time – ever enlightened of the ability of music to swell a congregation – were wont to mount in the name of worship. Whether or non Vivaldi always supplied all of the music for any such occasion is non clear – no complete integrated cycle exists – but he certainly gear up plenty of Vespers texts, enough at any rate for Rinaldo Alessandrini and scholar Frédéric Delaméa to put together this rich programme of delights...' Read the review
Violin Concertos, Op 4, La Stravaganza
Arte dei Suonatori / Rachel Podger vn
(Channel Classics)
'The performances past Rachel Podger are crackling with vitality and executed with consistent brilliance likewise as a kind of relish in virtuosity that catches the showy spirit, the self-conscious extravagance, of this particular set of works. In that location are plenty of movements hither where her sheer digital dexterity is amazing – I might cite the finale of No 6, with its scurrying figures, the second movement of No 7 (the but 4-move concerto), the finale of No two with its repetitive figures and leaping arpeggios, the witty sallies in that of No three, and the unproblematic rapidity in No 11 – or indeed half a dozen others.' Read the review
Il Proteo – Double and Triple Concertos
Christophe Coin vc Il Giardino Armonico
(Teldec)
'Playing of vitality and lyricism brings Vivaldi'due south music to life in a thrilling way. Indeed, the integrity and musicianly character of these performances is in no small measure heightened by the presence of Christophe Money. This new release is fantabulous in every respect: fine music, fine playing and a fine recording. An outstanding issue...' Read the review
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Stabat mater
Andreas Scholl; Ensemble 415 / Banchini
(Harmonia Mundi)
'Unlike settings of the Stabat mater by Pergolesi and some others, Vivaldi used only the first ten of the 20 stanzas of the verse form. His securely expressive setting of the poem volition be familiar to many readers but few will take heard such an affecting performance every bit Scholl achieves here. The lyrical prayer of human yearning for organized religion contained in the "Fac ut ardeat" movement is almost tenderly sung and here, as throughout the programme, sympathetically supported by the strings of Ensemble 415 under Chiara Banchini's experienced direction.' Read the review
Orlando Furioso
Sols; Choeur Les Eléments & Ensemble Matheus / Jean-Christophe Spinosi
(Naïve)
'Like Handel a few years later in London, Vivaldi must have been inspired past the peculiarly intense situations experienced by Orlando and Alcina, and the score has a dramatic stature greater than about of his other operas – although if Opus 111 continue to produce revelations like this, I may be forced to swallow my words. This is a magnificent achievement, and one of the pinnacles of Opus 111's monumental Vivaldi Edition. If Vivaldi needed a champion to more firmly plant his credentials every bit a fully-fledged opera composer, then this recording is information technology.' Read the review
'The Vivaldi Anthology'
Cecilia Bartoli; Il Giardino Armonico
(Decca)
'Coarse-voiced catamenia brass instruments herald Bartoli'due south riding of some particularly squally waves as tempest racks state and heart in 'Dopo un'orrida procella' from Griselda. The aria unleashes Bartoli's famous breathy, whispered coloratura, her flaming top register, and an enclosed, hollow chest-voice which seems to belong to neither of the other two...' Read the review
The Iv Seasons
La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler vn
(Avie)
'The grouping's founder and violinist/director Adrian Chandler is not merely steeped in the musical language of Baroque Italy, both vocal and instrumental; he is also fully conversant with its humanist wellsprings. Vivaldi's sonnets and consequent programmatic signposting throughout the score are thus filtered through a more nuanced rhetorical vision that is more phase than page. The result is an intensely dramatic account that will add together new spice to what has for many listeners perhaps come to resemble a dreary domestic human relationship. Take, for example, the spacious birdsong, surging waters and thumping rustic dances of "Spring"; the languid heat and raging storms finding echoes in the cuckoo'due south urgent phone call and the goldfinch'southward stratospheric sweetness in "Summer"; the drunkard's erratic progress mirrored in the hunters' ebullience and the hunted's tragic flight in "Autumn"; and the elements' implacable indifference in "Wintertime"...' Read the review
50'estro armonico
Brecon Bizarre / Rachel Podger vn
(Aqueduct Classics)
'What really shoots this recording straight to the superlative of the pile, however, is the sheer joy of it, the spontaneity and the tireless, surging musical free energy of its many sudden feints and sallies. How grippingly, for instance, the tension climbs in the often rather polite beginning movement of No iv; how liltingly the off-beat theorbo strums add springy definition to the finale of No 5; and how invigoratingly the taught energy of those semiquavers in the No 3 finale finds release in a glorious chain of suspensions, and the witty interplay of the final bars spills over into a last-note twiddle that is pure natural exuberance...' Read the review
'Concerti per flauto'
Maurice Steger rec/flautino I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis
(Harmonia Mundi)
'As for the performances, there is non much to be said nearly Steger'southward virtuosity other than that his dazzling fingerwork, varied articulation and colour seem to make him capable of anything he wants. What really makes this disc an outstanding one, however, is the way he creates an individual musical globe for each concerto. Maybe that is to exist expected in the descriptive ones, yet few others take matched his disturbingly spectral, lute-haunted La notte, and never have I heard a more pleasingly pastoral La pastorella, with its tasteful (aye, tasteful) additions of hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and, in the second movement, folk-mode strings...' Read the review
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