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Alessandra Visentin, Luca Oberti, Ensemble Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Motets & Stabat

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Alessandra Visentin, Luca Oberti, Ensemble Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Motets & Stabat

Alessandra Visentin, Luca Oberti, Ensemble Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Per la Sig.ra Geltruda - Motets & Stabat Mater (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 63:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pan Classics | # PC 10414 | Recorded: 2019

The autograph reference “Per la Sig.ra Geltruda” on the manuscript of Vivaldi’s motet “Clarae stellae, scintillate” has long aroused the curiosity of researchers. By years of research around the Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot is now revealed who this “Signora Geltruda” is: Geltruda della Violetta was a girl from the Venetian orphanage La Piet , where Vivaldi worked for over a decade. Geltruda probably had an exceptionally beautiful voice that quickly attracted the interest of important personalities.

Christophe Coin, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Antonio Vivaldi: 6 Cello Concertos (1989)

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Christophe Coin, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Antonio Vivaldi: 6 Cello Concertos (1989)

Antonio Vivaldi: 6 Cello Concertos (1989)
Christophe Coin, cello; The Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 260 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 132 Mb | Scans ~ 47 Mb
Classical, Baroque | Label: Decca, L'Oiseau-Lyre | # 421 732-2 | 00:57:32

Following his attractive performance of six of Vivaldi's cello sonatas, Christophe Coin has recorded six of the composer's 24 or so concertos for the instrument. Five of these, Michael Talbot tells us in an interesting accompanying note, probably belong to the 1720s while the sixth, the Concerto in G minor (RV416), is evidently a much earlier work. Coin has chosen, if I may use the expression somewhat out of its usual context, six of the best and plays them with virtuosity and an affecting awareness of their lyrical content. That quality, furthermore, is not confined to slow movements but occurs frequently in solo passages of faster ones, too. It would be difficult to single out any one work among the six for particular praise. My own favourite has long been the happily spirited Concerto in G major (RV413) with which Coin ends his programme. Strongly recommended. (Gramophone Magazine)

Christophe Coin, Christopher Hogwood - Antonio Vivaldi: 6 Cello Sonatas (1989)

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Christophe Coin, Christopher Hogwood - Antonio Vivaldi: 6 Cello Sonatas (1989)

Antonio Vivaldi: 6 Cello Sonatas (1989)
Christophe Coin, cello; Christopher Hogwood, harpsichord

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 305 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 165 Mb | Scans ~ 48 Mb
Classical, Baroque | Label: Decca, L'Oiseau-Lyre | # 421 060-2 | 01:11:50

Nine cello sonatas by Vivaldi have survived. Six of them were published as a set in Paris in about 1740; that set, mistakenly known as the composer's Op. 14, contains the sonatas recorded in this release. The three remaining sonatas come from manuscript collections. All but one of the six works are cast in the slow-fast-slow-fast pattern of movements of the sonata da chiesa. The odd one out, RV46, in fact, retains the four movement sequence but inclines towards the sonata da camera in the use of dance titles. The music of these sonatas is almost consistently interesting, often reaching high points of expressive eloquence, as we find, for example, in the justifiably popular Sonata in E minor, RV40. Christophe Coin brings to life these details in the music with technical assurance and a spirit evidently responsive to its poetic content. Particularly affecting instances of this occur in the third movements of the A minor and the E minor Sonatas where Coin shapes each phrase, lovingly achieving at the same time a beautifully sustained cantabile.

Michel Schwalbe, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan - Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (1972) Japanese Reissue 2004

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Michel Schwalbe, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan - Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (1972) Japanese Reissue 2004

Antonio Vivaldi - Le Quattro Stagioni (1972) Japanese Reissue 2004
Michel Schwalbé, violin solo; Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 243 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 112 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon, Universal | # UCCG-9503 | Time: 00:42:45

Karajan could be so expressive, with the big sound of the Berlin Philharmonic, in Vivaldi's very famous Magnum Opus. Solo violinist Michel Schwalbe is also terrific, quiet and bold alternately, as needed.

Emma Kirkby, Roy Goodman, The Brandenburg Consort - Antonio Vivaldi: Opera Arias and Sinfonias (1995)

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Emma Kirkby, Roy Goodman, The Brandenburg Consort - Antonio Vivaldi: Opera Arias and Sinfonias (1995)

Emma Kirkby, Roy Goodman, The Brandenburg Consort - Antonio Vivaldi: Opera Arias and Sinfonias (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 74:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66745 | Recorded: 1994

A disc which will delight both Vivaldi enthusiasts and lovers of Baroque music generally. Excellent recorded sound and strongly recommended on all counts.

Nils-Erik Sparf, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Op. 8 (1985)

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Nils-Erik Sparf, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble - Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Op. 8 (1985)

Antonio Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons), Op.8 (1985)
Nils-Erik Sparf, baroque violin; Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 235 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 99 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-275 | Time: 00:39:58

If listeners had to commit to a single version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons for the rest of their lives, this 1984 BIS recording would be thoroughly satisfying choice. Superbly played, brilliantly recorded period instrument performances of this perennial masterpiece are all but a dime a dozen, and the differences between Hogwood's and Pinnock's and Harnoncourt's readings don't begin to make up for the fatal boredom of their performances. This version with Nils-Erik Sparf and the Drottningholm Court Baroque Ensemble would be an ideal choice because theirs is the freshest performance of the piece. Beyond their excellent technique and impeccable sense of style, Sparf and the Swedish musicians bring joy and enthusiasm to the music, and sound like they are in turn receiving happiness and energy from the music. There's real pleasure here, and real affection, as if the concertos were newly composed and these were their world premieres. Filled out with witty accounts of Vivaldi's F major Concerto for Bassoon and his G minor Concerto for Flute and Bassoon, this disc is a delight.

Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)

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Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)

Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 370 MB | 01:08:58
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Nigel Kennedy created a sensation with his pumped-up Vivaldi on The Four Seasons, and this second volume of concertos with the strings of the Berlin Philharmonic offers more of the same: slapdash tempi, outrageously loud dynamics, over-the-top techniques, a pugnacious basso continuo, hammered exchanges between soloist and orchestra, and an aggressive pop/rock sensibility that speaks more of this star violinist than of the composer.

Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mutter's Virtuosi: Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams (2023)

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Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mutter's Virtuosi: Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams (2023)

Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mutter's Virtuosi: Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 430 Mb | Total time: 82:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # C5454 | Recorded: 2023

"Stupendous brilliance, breathless virtuosity. Anne-Sophie Mutter's Virtuosi thrilled at the Vienna Musikverein." (Die Presse) In June 2023, star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter gave an impressive concert in Vienna with her Virtuosi ensemble. Based on this, a varied album has now been created, with music by Antonio Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Joseph Bologne, André Previn and John Williams. "Growing up, I'm on the trail of storytellers," Mutter says of her work with the Virtuosi, a rotating ensemble of current and former Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation scholarship holders.

Dorothee Oberlinger, Ornamente 99 - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto (2002)

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Dorothee Oberlinger, Ornamente 99 - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto (2002)

Dorothee Oberlinger, Ornamente 99 - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 354 Mb | Total time: 68:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Marc Aurel Edition | # MA 20015 | Recorded: 2001

Die Extreme von Schönheit und Virtuosität hat Dorothee Oberlinger in dieser Aufnahme versucht sehr kunstvoll zu vereinen und so gibt diese CD nicht nur einen guten Einblick in ihr bravouröses Können, sondern beleuchtet auch die Werke Vivaldis in ihren mannigfaltigen Schattierungen. Dabei wird auf vordergründige Effekte verzichtet zugunsten der „schillernden Palette“ unterschiedlichster Affekte in Vivaldis Musik.

Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria! Vivaldi et ses anges (2008)

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Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria! Vivaldi et ses anges (2008)

Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria! Vivaldi et ses anges (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 66:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # AN 2 9917 | Recorded: 2008

The four works presented here were written for the Ospedale della Pietà, the female orphanage where Vivaldi taught voice and violin. Although the scores for the two choral works on this recording, the Gloria and the Magnificat, are written for the traditional four voices from soprano to bass, we must wonder who could have supplied the tenor and bass voices for concerts given by the orphans. Boys were not admitted to the orphanage, and there were very few men among its staff. In his notes for this recording, conductor Matthias Maute states that the tenor and bass parts were sung by the girls of the Ospedale. Michael Talbot, who has written extensively on Vivaldi’s life and sacred music, agrees with this assertion. According to Talbot, the tenor line would have been sung at the written pitch, while the bass line would have been sung an octave higher.

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 57:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # FL 2 3171 | Recorded: 2003

Quebec contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux scored a top rating on her earlier Analekta disc of Handel Italian cantatas, and in that review I expressed a desire for more recordings from this sensational young singer. If you enjoyed the Handel program (and if you don't have it, get it), you'll be just as happy with this new disc that combines two famous Baroque solo-vocal works with some engaging, relentlessly upbeat orchestral selections from the same period. Lemieux continues to impress with her warm, true-contralto tone, fluid legatos, canny phrasing, and total command of the technical aspects of these justifiably popular yet challenging works.

Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: The Return of the Angels (2011)

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Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: The Return of the Angels (2011)

Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: The Return of the Angels (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 57:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # AN29995 | Recorded: 2011

Following Ensemble Caprice’s first recording of Vivaldi’s sacred music (Gloria! Vivaldi and his Angels) we return to Vivaldi’s Venice and find ourselves yet again within the confines of the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage where, beginning in 1703, Vivaldi, the Red Priest, not only taught the orphan girls violin and singing, but also composed many of his most dazzling concertos as well as a substantial part of his highly inspired corpus of sacred music.

L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera III (2005)

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L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera III (2005)

L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera III (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 323 Mb | Total time: 60:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30381 | Recorded: 2000, 2003

The project to record all of the 450-odd works by Vivaldi held by the National University Library of Turin proceeds apace. It only seems yesterday that I was reviewing the opera "Orlando Furioso". For that set a very radical band of period performers was chosen, the Ensemble Matheus. L’Astrée – a Turin group in spite of its French name – are less radical in the sense that they don’t make their instruments rasp and bite, but I would say no less imaginative. With the help of a really lifelike recording – the instruments truly seemed to be in my listening room – the music just leaps off the page.

L'Astrée, Gemma Bertagnolli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera II (2004)

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L'Astrée, Gemma Bertagnolli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera II (2004)

L'Astrée, Gemma Bertagnolli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera II (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 63:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30404 | Recorded: 2000, 2003

En ce nouveau volume, Opus 111 poursuit son entreprise de découverte de l'oeuvre vivaldien. Le choix de mêler concertos et cantates, opéré déjà dans le précédent volume, se révèle toujours aussi judicieux : c'est en somme une manière de donner à la philologie et au souci archéologique les séductions du concert.

L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera I (2002)

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L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera I (2002)

L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera I (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 254 Mb | Total time: 54:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30358 | Recorded: 2000

In this second volume of the complete recording of Vivaldi's chamber concertos by L'Astrée, three of these fascinating works are coupled with three chamber cantatas. All these treasures of course come from the incomparable collections of the Biblioteca nazionale in Turin, but the link between the two repertoires does not stop there. First of all, the energy and virtuosity that this composer of genius requires of his musicians are very much the same, whether he is writing for the human voice or for the various instruments used in the concertos, which go from a single solo flute in the concerto La notte RV 104 to the extravagant combination, in RV 97, of viola d'amore, two horns, two oboes and bassoon.