It’s a score brimming with life and – in a great performance – it can just about make you forget its ubiquity as elevator and telephone hold music. He ignited transformations in music for the church, the opera house and the concert. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than fifty operas. There’s a reason why this music is so popular and performed by so many violinists: Vivaldi paints his scenes vividly to depict birdsong, thunderstorms, a galloping hunt, slipping on the ice. Antonio Vivaldi’s (4 March 1678 28 July 1741) influence on the development of Baroque music was immense. 01 Combatta un gentil cor 4:30 02 Leggi almeno, tiranna infedele 5:40 03 Da due venti un mar turbato 3:15 04 Non ti lusinghi la crudeltade 8:48 05 Rete. The violin concertos known as The Four Seasons are part of a collection of 12 works published under the title Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione ( The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). The opera was first performed at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice on 27 or 28 October 1716. Throw in some choral works and one discovers a composer of infinite variety far beyond the narrow lens of The Four Seasons – although, almost inevitably, that’s where we begin our Vivaldi journey. Arsilda, regina di Ponto is a dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi. Any staged Vivaldi opera is still considered a rarity, but the number of recordings available has grown in the past few decades, opening our ears to some great music. Vivaldi was a prolific opera composer too, writing about twice the number of Handel, yet many are lost or unperformed. Performances of his operas today are still a real rarity, so the arias on this excellent disc, some of which have never been recorded before, offer our only.
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