Recordings of Vivaldi operas are extremely scarce, and whether or not that will -- or should -- ever change is an open question. But excellent performances like this one make a good case for the music deserving wider appreciation, and offer a different perspective on a composer who, despite having been one of the greatest operatic composers of his ...
This disc is a sampler of Vivaldi discs released by France's Naďve label, and it's highly recommended to listeners who haven't yet given these recordings a try. The group of performers is pan-European, with French singers and Italian instrumentalists especially strongly represented, but a compilation like this brings home how well this label has ...
Antonio Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio, Juditha triumphans, has received several good recordings. For sheer crowd-pleasing music it is the equal of the commonly performed Handelian masterpieces, and its biblical story of the Jewish widow Judith, who seduces and then decapitates the Assyrian general Holofernes, would seem to conform to a general ...
George Frederick Handel's first oratorio is perhaps most familiar in its English version, The Triumph of Time and Truth, but that is a later reworking of the original in Italian, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (1707), the version that appears on this marvelous 2008 Hyperion release. This complex work presents an interweaving of lyricism, ...
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