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Vivaldi: Gloria; Bach: Magnificat / Hickox, Kirkby, Et Al
Chandos Mar 1991
CD
$21.99

Vivaldi, Lotti, Pisendel et al: Grand Tour of Venice / Bernardini, Zefiro

Arcana

$20.99 Sep 23, 2022

Like many education-hungry sons of the European nobility, the 18-year-old Prince Frederick August II embarked on his Grand Tour, which took him from Saxony to Venice in 1716, where he spent almost a year. The large entourage that accompanied the young prince on this trip included such great musicians as the violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, the oboist Johann Christian Richter and the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. In Venice, an intense exchange with local stars such as Vivaldi developed, in an atmosphere of friendship and competition. On his return to Dresden, August took with him, in addition to Lotti and Veracini, Heinichen, whom he had met in Venice and who became his Kapellmeister. After acclaimed recordings of orchestral works by Handel and Bach, Zefiro now discovers this fascinating repertoire of music by Italians who composed in the French style and Germans who wrote Venetian concertos to impress the prince.

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Vivaldi, Lotti, Pisendel et al: Grand Tour of Venice / Bernardini, Zefiro
Arcana Sep 2022
CD
$20.99

JEFFREY SKIDMORE
ALTO May 2012
CD
$11.01

Vivaldi: Four Seasons; Tartini: Violin Sonata "Devil's Trill" / Joshua Bell

Sony Masterworks

$11.98 Sep 02, 2008

You know how animal conservationists say that it's essential to cull the over-populated deer herds every so often so as to make life better and less competitive for the remaining animals? Well, this is similar to what I do every two or three years to my persistently-proliferating stock of Vivaldi Four Seasons recordings. The active catalog now lists more than 200 versions; about a dozen is the limit of both my shelf-space and sensibility. So this new one arrives and, well, it's Joshua Bell and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, so it's likely to be worth a listen, and perhaps a place on that already over-populated shelf.

Of course, Sony already has a perfectly wonderful period-instrument Four Seasons with Giuliano Carmignola, and then there's the very fine modern-instrument Anne-Sophie Mutter rendition on DG, with an identical coupling no less, which like this one weirdly neglects to mention the Tartini sonata on the disc front cover or spine(!)--and we've yet to touch on other respectable versions by Fabio Biondi (Virgin) or Gil Shaham (also DG)--and no doubt you've already got your own favorite(s).

Ultimately none of this matters. If you're a Joshua Bell and/or Vivaldi fan, or if you've just arrived on planet Earth and therefore haven't yet acquired your first Four Seasons recording, you only have to consider whether these performances are distinctive and authoritative and exciting enough to move them from the store shelves to yours. The answer is unequivocally "yes".

Bell is one of the more consistently tasteful, sensitive, anti-self-indulgent violin virtuosos on the scene today, and as such he delivers these inherently flashy concertos with a refreshingly straightforward approach that scorches and sizzles without ever falling prey to pyrotechnic vulgarity. Bell and his first-rate partners--bravo to harpsichordist John Constable!--just make beautiful music out of Vivaldi's conceptions, and their efforts are as gripping as we expect from musicians of this caliber. The final, hair-raising Allegro of "Spring"--brought to vivid, room-filling life by the superb engineering--is just one example. Aficionados of the Tartini sonata will be interested to hear Bell's own little cadenza along with his occasional personal ornamentations, which confirm this performance's distinctive character as well as Bell's technical and interpretive artistry.

This music is so familiar and its technical demands so mainstream these days that any of today's better-trained violinists could deliver a respectable rendition--of any Vivaldi concerto for that matter. But Bell's assured performances and exceptionally vibrant sonics move this recording into the top tier--and I'm already eying my shelf to see which current occupant will have to be sacrificed.

--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com

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Vivaldi: Four Seasons; Tartini: Violin Sonata "Devil's Trill" / Joshua Bell
Sony Masterworks Sep 2008
CD
$11.98

Vivaldi 100 - 13 Violin Concertos

Arcana

$29.99 Jul 24, 2026

Ask 100 people and you'll know 100 things. Talking about numbers in Vivaldi's work is mind-boggling! 96 operas, dozens of cantatas and sacred pieces, over 600 instrumental pieces, including 230 violin concertos. One movement per day over a 40-year career... With this recording, Giuliano Carmignola reaches the milestone of 100 violin concertos for the first time in the history of recordings! 13 new compositions reveal the Treviso virtuoso's incomparable affinity with this repertoire of inexhaustible charm.

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Vivaldi 100 - 13 Violin Concertos
Arcana Jul 2026
CD
$29.99

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Vivaldi: 12 Concerti di Parigi / Plewniak, Orchestre de l'Opera Royal de Versailles

Château de Versailles Spectacles

$15.99 ~~$20.99~~ Save 25% Apr 08, 2022

Vivaldi's work is extraordinarily profuse, and from his “extraordinary fury of composition” resulted a collection of 12 concertos, preserved in Paris since then, genuine jewels of Vivaldian music! However, for whom were they composed? The French Ambassador in Venice, Jacques-Vincent Languet, who made numerous commissions to Vivaldi in the 1720s? Perhaps as a magnificent gift to a visiting French music lover... Or perhaps François-Etienne, Duke of Lorraine and Bar? A fine music lover and musician, who in 1745 became Emperor Francis I of Austria, gave early protection to Vivaldi, who introduced himself in 1731 as “maestro di cappella di S.A.R. il Serenissimo Sig. Duca di Lorena”. The Paris Concertos would then have passed through the Luneville Court, which was very musical? The mystery is there, but these works influenced Parisian musical life. Stefan Plewniak's raging violin gives them back their full glory in this virtuoso interpretation by the Orchestre de l'Opera Royal de Versailles!

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Vivaldi: 12 Concerti di Parigi / Plewniak, Orchestre de l'Opera Royal de Versailles
Château de Versailles Spectacles Apr 2022
CD
~~$20.99~~ $15.99

Allgen: Violin Sonata
BIS May 2006
CD
$39.99

Vivaldi: Opera IV "La Stravaganza" - concerti 1/6
Tactus Jan 1996
CD
$21.99

Gloria! - Vivaldi's Angels / Maute, Ensemble Caprice

Analekta

$20.99 Nov 11, 2008

Antonio Vivaldi wrote most of his choral music for the all-female orphanage Ospedalle della Pietà in Venice, where he directed the musical activities for almost 40 years. Vivaldi's sacred music exudes the same spirited drive and dramatic virtuosity that have made his concertos so popular. The young women of the Pietà chosen to perform in its choir were renowned for their exceptional musical abilities and angelic voices, and their concerts quickly became a popular tourist attraction in the 18th century. It is unclear whether these girls actually performed the bass parts, though there are a few tantalizing--if unintuitive!--contemporary references to just such a practice There is no consensus on whether the lower voices were sung as written in the score--most modern renditions feature a mixed chorus--or whether they were transposed up an octave. Matthias Maute, conducting Ensemble Caprice, makes an inspired case for the latter approach--his all-female choir sounds, aptly, angelic.

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Gloria! - Vivaldi's Angels / Maute, Ensemble Caprice
Analekta Nov 2008
CD
$20.99

GUITAR CONCERTI
PHILIPS Jul 1991
CD
$16.49

Chiaroscuro - Vivaldi / Guimond, Lussier, Arion
Early-music.com Sep 2008
CD
$18.99

Vivaldi: Chamber Music With Wind Instruments / Camerata Köln
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi May 2008
CD
$17.99

The Eight Seasons - Vivaldi, Piazzolla / Morton, Scottish Ensemble

Signum Classics

$19.99 Jan 01, 2011

A unique disc from one of Scotland's most dynamic and versatile groups – the Scottish Ensemble is a tight-knit band of outstanding string players from around Europe who perform regularly together under Artistic Director, Jonathan Morton. This disc – one of their first solo releases following acclaimed discs with artists such as Alison Balsom and Toby Spence – contrasts Vivaldi's timeless Four Seasons with Piazzolla's tango-inspired The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

Combining Vivaldi and Piazzola together like this underlines the meteorological and cultural differences between Mediterranean Europe and the heart of South America. To have them performed side by side creates a fascinating programme of similarities and contrasts.

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The Eight Seasons - Vivaldi, Piazzolla / Morton, Scottish Ensemble
Signum Classics Jan 2011
CD
$19.99

Venetian Cello Sonatas. Under the Shade of Vivaldi

Arcana

$20.99 Aug 23, 2019

A tireless explorer of territories off the beaten track, Gaetano Nasillo has already addressed Venetian music with a memorable album devoted to composer and 'musico di violoncello' Antonio Caldara (A356). This new album brings us back to Venice to discover cello virtuosos and sonatas between Vivaldi and Tartini. 'In the late seventeenth century the bass member of the violin family underwent an evolution to become the instrument we know as the violoncello. Within a few decades, Venice and it's republic became an important centre of composition for the new instrument, whose popularity steadily increased, reaching a peak in the 1730s and 1740s. In his recorded anthology of sonatas for the instrument the cellist Gaetano Nasillo has selected eight works by eight different composers with a connection to La Serenissima. One composer, Antonio Vivaldi, is extremely well known; two, Benedetto Marcello and Giovanni Benedetto Platti, are slightly known; the remaining five - Girolamo Bassani, Diogenio Bigaglia, Antonio Martinelli, Antonio Vandini and Michele Stratico - are hardly known at all, and this premiere recording of their sonatas reveals the high quality and simple enjoyability of their music.' - Michael Talbot

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Venetian Cello Sonatas. Under the Shade of Vivaldi
Arcana Aug 2019
CD
$20.99

Mozart: Coronation Mass; Motet 'exsultate, Jubilate'; Vesperae Solemnes De Confessore; Ave Verum Corpus
Coviello Sep 2006
SACD
$21.99

Vivaldi: Violin Concertos From L'estro Armonico / Josef Suk
RCA Mar 2008
CD
$17.99

Vivaldi: Solo Concertos

Haenssler Classic

$20.99 Apr 29, 2014

"The Baroque Soloists, Munich are among the best mixed ensembles in the field of historically informed performance practice A program of some of Vivaldi‘s less familiar concertos for various instruments The members of the Baroque Soloists Munich are in high demand as soloist, orchestral and chamber musicians on the early music scene"

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Vivaldi: Solo Concertos
Haenssler Classic Apr 2014
CD
$20.99

Vivaldi: Concerti
Phil Harmonie Nov 2013
CD
$24.99

Vivaldi For Relaxation
Sony Masterworks Mar 2001
CD
$11.98

Caldara: Gloria; Respighi: Lauda per la Natività del Signore / Canova Chamber Orchestra

Urania Records

$21.99 Jan 19, 2024

A tribute to Italian Baroque, Antonio Caldara and his Gloria a 8 voci, transcribed, performed and recorded for the first time ever, a masterpiece of pompous Venetian sacredness to which the wonderful Lauda by Ottorino Respighi was wanted to be juxtaposed. Two centuries later, the Bolognese composer gives a perfect example of rewriting together medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. A way to reaffirm the strong bond between Baroque and the 20th century, always a source of great inspiration.

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Caldara: Gloria; Respighi: Lauda per la Natività del Signore / Canova Chamber Orchestra
Urania Records Jan 2024
CD
$21.99

Vivaldi, A.: Oboe Concertos
Haenssler Classic Jan 2010
CD
$20.99

The Stories Of Vivaldi & Corelli
Vox Jan 1993
CD
$19.99

Vivaldi: Il Farnace / Sardelli, Prina, Galou, Nesi, Castellano [blu-ray]

Dynamic

Blu-Ray

$36.99 Jun 30, 2015

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Il Farnace is the most re-written and re-proposed of Vivaldi’s operas. Versions of Farnace, two in 1727 and one each in 1730, 1731 and 1732, were conceived and adapted to the different circumstances for Venice, Prague, Pavia and Mantua, always with a cast to Vivaldi’s satisfaction and with the composer in control of the production. The greatest appreciation of Vivaldi’s operatic music was expressed in a letter by a spectator of the 1727 Carnival season. The abbot Antonio Conti wrote that of all the operas of the Venice season he liked best Farnace because its music was varied, “between the sublime and the tender,” and because Vivaldi’s pupil worked wonders. In 1738, for the Ferrara Carnival season, Vivaldi wrote a new score of the opera. This is the last Farnace, in two acts, as the third was lost.

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Vivaldi: Il Farnace / Sardelli, Prina, Galou, Nesi, Castellano [blu-ray]
Dynamic Jun 2015
Blu-Ray
$36.99

Laudarium

Arcana

$29.99 Nov 18, 2014

A musical-poetic genre first developed by Saint Francis of Assisi, the Lauda is one of the most remarkable expressions of Italian popular musical culture from the Middle Ages to the present day, and one of the oldest historically. + La Reverdie presents a rich, 2CD anthology of Italian monophonic Laude from the repertoire’s two principal sources: the Cortona (ca. 1270) and Florence (ca. 1320) manuscripts. + Many of the Florence pieces have never been recorded. + The accompanying booklet contains detailed introductory essays on the music’s reconstruction and wider cultural significance.

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Laudarium
Arcana Nov 2014
CD
$29.99

Vivaldi: L'incoronazione di Dario / Dantone, Torino Teatro Regio Orchestra [Blu-ray]

Dynamic

Blu-Ray

$36.99 Nov 17, 2017

This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players.

Also available on standard DVD
The cast is the best we could possible want for Vivaldi nowadays: Ottavio Dantone's skilfull conducting brings the best out of this orchestral enchantment. Sara Mingardo brings her classy voice and remarkable stage presence to the role of the naive Statira. Delphine Galou’s bright tone and excellent agility combine with perfect diction. Roberta Mameli's crystal clear notes make of the role of Alinda a masterpiece of expressivity. Recorded in high definition, this production offers subtitles in Italian, German, English, French, Japanese, and Korean. Octavio Dantone is an Italian conductor and harpsichordist who is particularly noted for his performances of Baroque music. He has served as the Music Director of the Accademia Bizantina in Ravenna since 1996.

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Vivaldi: L'incoronazione di Dario / Dantone, Torino Teatro Regio Orchestra [Blu-ray]
Dynamic Nov 2017
Blu-Ray
$36.99