In Reply to: RE: Was Vivaldi a "One Hit Wonder"?? posted by learsfool on November 2, 2011 at 19:34:34:
. . . are written to a very high standard. (There are other great concertos that he wrote too, but you should be pretty safe in sticking to the opus number collections.) I have most of these in the non-HIP performances by I Solisti Italiani on Denon. (It's getting harder and harder to find non-HIP versions of Vivaldi.) I also agree with John below that the vocal music can be beautiful and interesting. I particularly like this Naxos recording, featuring Canadian performers:
(I'm showing the DVD-Audio incarnation which I have, but I'm sure the plain old CD version is excellent too.)
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Follow Ups
- Generally, the concertos that have opus numbers. . . - Chris from Lafayette 00:01:18 11/03/11 (5)
- RE: Generally, the concertos that have opus numbers. . . - John C. - Aussie 17:04:09 11/04/11 (0)
- What does "non-HIP " mean? - Joe Appierto 05:17:24 11/04/11 (2)
- HIP = Historically Informed Performance - Chris from Lafayette 08:27:59 11/04/11 (1)
- Thank you! (nt) - Joe Appierto 08:33:24 11/04/11 (0)
- Oops - Sorry - meant to post under the OP [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 00:02:53 11/03/11 (0)