The four concerti in The Four Seasons of Antonio Vivaldi have probably earned the distinction of being the most frequently recorded classical works in the digital era. Originally published as part of a set of 12 concerti as Vivaldi's Opus 8, the other eight concerti also get some attention, particularly La tempesta di mare, but the set as a whole ...
With the furor attendant to the multi-lateral attribution of the newly recorded pasticcio opera Andromeda Liberata, there is still a very fine and tasty all-genuine Antonio Vivaldi disc that may well get lost in the shuffle, namely Patrizia Ciofi's Virgin Veritas disc of Vivaldi's Motets with Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi. A motet was not the ...
Among the numerous recordings of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater in F major on the market, and the only slightly less numerous readings of the two Salve Regina settings recorded here, this disc stands out sharply. Pergolesi was criticized during his own brutally short life for his operatic settings of sacred music, and his critics would have had to be ...
For fans of the classical mandolin, here is a disc of the best works for the instrument by Antonio Vivaldi, the best friend the mandolin ever had. And for the rest of the world, here is a disc of colorful Baroque concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, the best friend the Baroque concerto ever had. After all, Vivaldi may have been the mandolin's best friend ...
Even hard-core Vivaldians will not be blamed for being a little mystified by the appearance on disc of the opera Bajazet, here recorded for the first time on Virgin Classics. A cursory glance at Antonio Vivaldi's worklist in Grove's will not make its pedigree readily apparent, but closer inspection reveals that it is given as an alternate title to ...
In little more than a decade's time, Fabio Biondi has established himself as one of the world's foremost interpreters of Baroque literature, both as violinist and conductor, and Biondi's group, Europa Galante, fits him like a glove. In Vivaldi, whose status has risen from complete obscurity in the 1920s to that of one of the hottest dead white men ...
With this exciting release, Fabio Biondi, the outstanding Europa Galante, and a cast led by stars Véronique Gens and Vivica Genaux strike a decisive blow for Alessandro Scarlatti's obscure Oratorio per la Santissima Trinità. Old-fashioned even in its day, the work is a musicalized instructional debate about the mysteries of the Holy Trinity ...
Leave it to Fabio Biondi to take a relatively "new" work of Antonio Vivaldi never before recorded and build something exciting and thoroughly relevant around it. Virgin Classics' Improvisata: Sinfonie con titoli features Vivaldi's plucky Sinfonia Improvisata, RV 802, a fragmentary work that was discovered only in 1999; this appears to be its first ...
The revival of the viola d'amore as an instrument distinct and separate from the viola is a well-established phenomenon, advanced by composers and performers alike at least since the 1920s. That doesn't mean, however, that there are a great many players of the viola d'amore around, nor are there nearly as many viola d'amores in existence to play, ...
This 1993 recording, originally released on the Opus 111 label, features violinist and leader Fabio Biondi, who has gone on to become one of the bona fide stars of the early music scene. Another future star was Rinaldo Alessandrini, heard here on organ and harpsichord continuo. Their talents combine with those of veteran Baroque soprano Barbara ...
The miracle is not that each succeeding disc of Vivaldi concertos by Europa Galante led by Fabio Biondi is as brilliant as the preceding discs. The miracle is not that for each succeeding disc that Biondi finds more first-rate Vivaldi concertos. The miracle is that, with so many gracefully charming, elegantly witty, and delightfully diverse ...
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