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Vivaldi: Oracolo In Messenia - Julia Lezhneva L Oracolo in Messenia, an opera written by Vivaldi for Vienna in 1740, was reconstructed by Fabio Biondi in 2011 in a triumpan open to the famous Resonanzen festival in Vienna, appropriately enough. Originally, the opera was intended to be performed in Vienna during Carnival in 1741, but due to the death of the Austrian Emperor and ultimately, himself, his plans fell through. Vivaldi expert, Fabio Biondi, reconstructed the work using a recently discovered libretto in the Library of Congress, Viavaldi s personal scores as well as those from his contemporaries.

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FOUR SEASONS

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Recorded in: St Peter's Church, Morden, Surrey 9-11 October 1991 Producer(s) Nicholas Anderson Sound Engineer(s) Richard Lee Jonathan Cooper (Assistant)

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Recorded in: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London 28-30 October 1998 Producer(s) Nicholas Anderson Sound Engineer(s) Jonathan Cooper Richard Smoker (Assistant)

VIVALDI : L'Estro Armonico / Wind and Brass / Concerti

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This CD is available as part of Bis Twins 6.

Vivaldi, A.: Gloria, Rv 589 / Torelli, G.: Concerto Grosso i

Vivaldi, A.: Concertos - Rv 455, 540, 552, 558, 576 / Sinfon

VIVALDI: Vocal and Instrumental Works

RECORDER BY Dan Laurin. WORKS BY ANTONIO VIVALDI

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Selections on this disc were recorded in October 1994 and January 1995.

VIVALDI: Violin Concertos Op. 4, Nos. 7-12

VIVALDI: Violin Concertos Op. 4, Nos. 1-6

Recording information: Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London.

VIVALDI: Concertos for Strings

VIVALDI: Cello Concertos, Vol. 4

VIVALDI: Cello Concertos, Vol. 1

Vivaldi: Four Seasons (The) / Wind Concertos

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Takako Nishizaki is one of Japan's finest violinists. After studying with her father, Shinji Nishizaki, she became the first student of Shinichi Suzuki, the creator of the famous Suzuki Method of teaching children to play the violin. Subsequently she went to Japan's famous Toho School of Music and to Juilliard in the United States, where she studied with Joseph Fuchs. The first concerto, Spring, opens with the cheerful song of the birds that welcomes the season, followed by the gentle murmur of streams fanned by the breeze: there is thunder and lightning, and then the birds resume their song, represented by the solo violin assisted by two other solo violins. The second movement shows the goat-herd asleep, while the viola serves as a watch-dog, barking regularly in each bar against the murmur of the foliage. A pastoral dance brings more activity, to the sound of the bag-pipe, interrupted by a section for the solo violin that seems to breathe the sultry heat of coming summer. Autumn opens with the dance and song of the country-people, in work that has much of the artifice of the traditional pastoral convention. The last of the seasons, Winter, brings cold winds, the stamping of feet and chattering teeth. The slow movement shelters by the warmth of the fireside, while the rain falls outside, and the last movement of this eventful history shows people walking carefully on ice, slipping and falling and running in case the ice breaks. The winds are at war, but there is sport to be had.