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Vivaldi: Concerti Per Fagotto V / Sergio Azzolini, L'Onda Armonica

Naïve

$9.49 ~~$18.99~~ Save 50% Apr 16, 2021

Only now are we fully aware of the true immensity of Vivaldi’s concerto repertoire. The violin is by no means the only instrument he favored: the place of the bassoon in his work catalogue is remarkable for its size and stylistic homogeneity, as well as for his solistic treatment of an instrument previously confined to the continuo. Seven new concertos here join the twenty-six already recorded in the first four volumes of the Vivaldi Edition, an anthology Sergio Azzolini embarked on in 2009 with L’Aura Soave, and now builds on with L’Onda Armonica.

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Vivaldi: Concerti Per Fagotto V / Sergio Azzolini, L'Onda Armonica
Naïve Apr 2021
CD
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V1: TAIZE: INSTRUMENTAL

GIA

$18.99 Jan 01, 2003

This recording by the Taize Community offers all the songs found on Laudate Omnes Gentes, but in instrumental versions only. Taize: Instrumental was created to support small groups who wish to pray in song, but are uncomfortable singing a cappella or do not have the resources for live instrumental accompaniment. It contains instrumental support for 19 songs that are straightforward to sing and do not require solo verses. The guitar accompanies throughout, with a flute playing the melody, sometimes joined by the oboe or clarinet. Ideal for small prayer groups!

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V1: TAIZE: INSTRUMENTAL
GIA Jan 2003
CD
$18.99

Beyond Vivaldi – Lute Concertos

Arcana

$20.99 Apr 24, 2026

Composed during Antonio Vivaldi's stay in Prague in 1729-30, the Concerto for Lute RV 93 is the most celebrated example of a repertoire almost totally neglected today, but once extremely popular in the German-speaking world, particularly in the Habsburg lands of Austria and Bohemia. After offering us a reference edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach (2022) and a representative anthology of the output of Silvius Leopold Weiss (2024), Evangelina Mascardi concludes her 18th-century trilogy by illuminating a fundamental, yet hitherto largely sidelined, chapter in the history of the lute. Alongside the Vivaldi concerto, which guitarists have embraced since the early 1960s, making it one of his most acclaimed works, we find four genuine and practically unknown gems, such as those composed by Joachim Bernard Hagen and Karl Ignaz Augustin Kohaut, now given their first recording. Accompanied by the Estrovagante Orchestra, directed by Riccardo Doni, Mascardi ventures into the rococo idiom, the stylistic context for the final virtuosic showpieces of an instrument boasting a rich history, but destined-in the space of just a few years-to be definitively eclipsed.

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Beyond Vivaldi – Lute Concertos
Arcana Apr 2026
CD
$20.99

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Vivaldi: Griselda
Naxos Jan 2008
CD
$35.99

Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos / Dan Laurin, 1B1

BIS

SACD

$21.99 Feb 12, 2016

The Swedish recorder virtuoso Dan Laurin has demonstrated his remarkable versatility on some thirty recordings for BIS, ranging from a nine-disc set with 17th-century composer Jacob van Eyck's complete Der Fluyten Lust-hof to the recent Rock that Flute, with music for recorder and strings written in 2013 by the Dutch composer Chiel Meijering. During a recording career that stretches over almost 30 years, Laurin keeps returning to one particular set of works, however: the concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Three of the works (the Concertos RV 441, 443 and 444) included on his latest release he has recorded more than once before, with ensembles such as the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Bach Collegium Japan and Arte dei Suonatori. For his latest 'take' on these favourites Laurin has joined forces with the young and vibrant Norwegian string ensemble 1B1 (shorthand for Ensemble Bjergsted 1). As he explains in his own liner notes for the present disc, he was inspired by his work on transcribing and performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: ‘A close reading of RV441 and RV443–445 reveals great similarities between these works and The Four Seasons: sudden changes of moods, turbulent emotions, burlesque whims mixed with sublime beauty and elegance… My aim here is to explore the recorder concertos with the same freedom and spontaneity that characterize the modern-day approach to the Seasons.’ Laurin’s recording of the Seasons has been called ‘undoubtedly the best transcription to date’ (Diapason) and ‘never hackneyed, but instead invigoratingly fresh and vibrant’ (Clarino), verdicts which can only fuel the expectations concerning this his latest version of the recorder concertos.

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Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos / Dan Laurin, 1B1
BIS Feb 2016
SACD
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Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto, archi e continuo, Vol. 2
Tactus Jan 2010
CD
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Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni; Guido / Guglielmo, Et Al
CPO May 2004
SACD
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Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni / Gabetta, Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal

Château de Versailles Spectacles

DVD with CD

$30.99 ~~$40.99~~ Save 25% Jul 09, 2021

What if Vivaldi’s famous Quattro Stagioni, performed in Paris in 1728, had been preceded by those of Guido, the star violinist of the Parisian orchestras of Louis XIV’s maturity? Here, at last, are these two works reunited: to the well-known virtuosity of Vivaldi’s work, of extraordinary impact, Guido’s Seasons oppose a mixture of Italian features and a thousand facets worthy of the French Court, with an infectious ardor! A mysterious Neapolitan who arrived in Paris around 1702 as Music Master to Philippe d’Orléans, Guido was close to the financier Crozat, who in 1716 commissioned Watteau to produce four paintings on the theme of the Seasons: he set them to music around 1717 with his Quattro Stagioni dell’anno. So, Vivaldi or Guido, who inspired the other? For this exciting confrontation, the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal is enriched with wind instruments, and suddenly a thousand colors appear: the song of birds, the hurdy-gurdy of peasant dances, the shepherd’s flute, and the hunting horns! Conducted by the virtuoso Andrés Gabetta, here is all the music of Vivaldi and more: Eight Seasons!

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Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni / Gabetta, Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal
Château de Versailles Spectacles Jul 2021
DVD with CD
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Vivaldi: Il Farnace / Sardelli, Prina, Galou, Nesi, Castellano [dvd]

Dynamic

DVD

$27.99 ~~$36.99~~ Save 25% 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 [dvd]
Dynamic Jun 2015
DVD
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Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 1, 6 & 9 - Vivaldi - C.

Naxos

$19.99 Jun 26, 2012

Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 are written for small solo string ensemble and orchestra, a combination which invites elegant interplay between like-sounding but distinctive groups. Nicknamed Il gardellino, or 'The Goldfinch', Vivaldi's Flute Concerto is as filled with charming melody and sounds from nature as anything in the Four Seasons. Possibly written for King Frederick the Great, the easy grace of C.P.E. Bach's Flute Concerto in D minor has a surprisingly dramatic and virtuoso finale. This recording brings together leading soloists of the Seattle Symphony in a feast of 18th century refinement.

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Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 1, 6 & 9 - Vivaldi - C.
Naxos Jun 2012
CD
$19.99

VIVALDI: Sonatas for Strings, Vol. 2
Chandos Aug 1990
CD
$21.99

Vivaldi: Flute Concertos, Op. 10

Brilliant Classics

Vinyl

$34.99 Aug 16, 2024

Vivaldi was one of the first composers to focus on the transverse flute as a viable solo instrument, and he may have even been the first to dedicate a whole publication to the flute family. His Opus 10 was published by Michel-Charles Le Cene in around 1728, though in reality many of the works in the collection were revised versions of earlier compositions, with Vivaldi capitalising on the popularity of the flute and rewriting material previously used for other instruments. Adding descriptive elements to the movement names, often connected to natural phenomena - such as 'La tempesta del mare' - was another way of boosting sales, something the composer had already discovered with his publication of The Four Seasons some years earlier. Vivaldi wrote over 500 concertos during his lifetime, and his expertise in this field is particularly evident in the exchanges between the ritornello and the orchestral tutti: while the ensemble comes together perfectly in the tutti, the soloist is really given a chance to fly in the soaring ritornelli, showcasing the instrument to it's fullest. Performing these works is Italian flautist Mario Folena, principal flautist of the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto since 1982. He has previously collaborated with many prominent ensembles, including I Solisti Veneti and I Filarmonici di Verona, and is a respected teacher of the Baroque flute, having given summer courses at the Fondazione Cini in Venice and the conservatoires of Padova and Parma. He is joined by L'Arte dell'Arco, led from the front by violinist Federico Guglielmo, whose exuberant and thoroughly researched Vivaldi performances have previously garnered high praise. - The LP version of one of the most successful Vivaldi recordings in the Brilliant Classics catalogue. - Vivaldi's six Concertos for flute Op.10 nearly attain the same popularity as the Four Seasons. Published in Amsterdam in 1728 they contain some of Vivaldi's most famous concertos: Il Gardellino, La Notte and the Tempesta di Mare. Music of wonderful invention, drama, tone painting and instrumental virtuosity. - Played on original instruments by soloist Mario Folena, a pupil of Jean-Pierre Rampal and Rene Clemencic, principal flutist of the famous Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, and veteran of the Historically Informed Performance Practice. Federico Guglielmo leads his ensemble l'Arte del'Arco, lifelong champions of the Red Priest from Venice. - Performance is based on the new Critical Edition of Vivaldi's works, revealing many new details and insights.

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Vivaldi: Flute Concertos, Op. 10
Brilliant Classics Aug 2024
Vinyl
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Vivaldi: Opera II - Sonate 1/6 per violino e basso continuo
Tactus Jan 1995
CD
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Vivaldi 8+, Vol. 2

Signum Classics

$19.99 Nov 14, 2025

Baroque giants La Serenissima return with VIVALDI 8 - VOLUME 2, following their previous instalment in February 2025 of Vivaldi 8 Volume 1. Recognised for 'whipping up a storm with Vivaldi', La Serenissima is 'one of Britain's best-loved chamber orchestras' (The Telegraph) known for their outstanding performances, championing a host of neglected Italian baroque composers. Uniquely, the group's entire repertoire is edited from source material by founder and violinist, Adrian Chandler OSI. Praise for Vivaldi recordings by La Serenissima: 5 stars "After being obsessed by the composer and his music world for more than 30 years, Chandler by now is Vivaldi incarnate" - The Times

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Vivaldi 8+, Vol. 2
Signum Classics Nov 2025
CD
$19.99

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Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos, Op. 10
Stradivarius Mar 2010
CD
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Vivaldi, Chelleri & Ristori: Teatro Sant'Angelo / Charvet, Le Consort

Alpha

$20.99 Apr 14, 2023

During the Carnival of Venice in 1637, a play ‘rappresentata in musica’ was opened to the public for the first time – a success. Opera was born and spread like wildfire. Venice had the largest number of theaters in the world. In 1677, the Teatro Sant’Angelo opened its doors on the campo of the same name. Tiny, chaotic, cheap and extremely productive, it was renowned for its musicians and its sets. This effervescence owes much to the figure of Vivaldi who, from 1705 onwards, regularly premiered his operas there and acted (with his father) as impresario. His own Arsilda, L’incoronazione di Dario and La verità in cimento triumphed there, but he also invited composers such as the young Fortunato Chelleri and Giovanni Alberto Ristori. The mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet and her partners in Le Consort pay tribute to all these composers with a flamboyant program that mixes famous arias and world premieres – no fewer than twelve of them!

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Venice’s Sant’Angelo Theatre opened its doors to the public in 1677. Though never the grandest of the Serenissima’s opera houses, it nonetheless attracted important names, including Antonio Vivaldi. Alongside a selection of Vivaldi arias, this album includes a dozen first recordings unveiling other composers who trod the theater’s boards. Spanning the gamut of Baroque affects, the program contrasts frothy arias with tragic outpourings and displays of vocal fireworks.

Adèle Charvet dispatches the showpieces with agility and bravura, but her velvety voice is particularly well suited to the pathos arias which are eloquently articulated; just occasionally her vibrato wavers a little intrusively. She’s superbly supported by Ensemble Le Consort who, under the brilliant young violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte, perform with fire, passion and breathtaking virtuosity.

-- BBC Music Magazine

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Vivaldi, Chelleri & Ristori: Teatro Sant'Angelo / Charvet, Le Consort
Alpha Apr 2023
CD
$20.99

Scarlatti: Complete Sonatas, Vol. 9 / Belder
Brilliant Classics Feb 2007
CD
$17.99

Vivaldi: Concerti per archi
CAvi-music Aug 2007
CD
$19.99

La Notte - Vivaldi: Concerti / Musica Pacifica, Et Al

Sono Luminus

$18.99 Apr 20, 1999

No Baroque composer is more beloved than Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), and no contemporary ensemble brings to his music more joy than Musica Pacifica. Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin, and Judy Linsenberg, recorder, lead a stellar ensemble on oboe, cello, lute, and harpsichord, in performances of great elegance and flair. Full of elation and engaging vitality, this CD is a delight from start to finish. Priest, teacher, and composer, Vivaldi produced an enormous amount of music, including more than 500 sonatas. This program consists of sonatas and 'chamber' concertos, including one of his most famous works, 'La Notte' (The Night) RV 104.

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La Notte - Vivaldi: Concerti / Musica Pacifica, Et Al
Sono Luminus Apr 1999
CD
$18.99

Vivaldi: Violin Concertos vol. 10, 'Intorno a Pisendel' / Chauvin, La Concert de la Loge

Naïve

$18.99 Sep 23, 2022

This tenth volume of violin concertos marks the return of Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge to the Vivaldi Edition, with works linked to Pisendel, a major musical figure in the court of Dresden in the 18th century. Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge released a hugely successful volume of Vivaldi concertos with a theatrical theme in 2020. In this new album they perform works focusing on Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), konzertmeister at the Dresden Court chapel, and pupil and friend of Vivaldi, who played a key role in the popularity of the Red Priest’s music in Dresden. It is thanks to the admiration and foresight of this eminent German violinist not only that the city possesses a considerable Vivaldi catalogue, but also that certain signed manuscripts were preserved that are to be found only in Dresden.

This album comprises three concertos composed for him (RV 237, RV 314 and RV 340) and three others copied by his hand (RV 225, RV 226 and RV 369). All the many contrasts which mark Vivaldi’s concerto repertoire – whatever the instrument –are magnified here under the supple bow of Julien Chauvin: his close bond with Le Concert de la Loge flourishes in a free, rich and diverse discourse, fiery and passionate in the external movements, and lyric or gently melancholic in the central parts. Worth mentioning among the many examples are the splendid elegiac song of the Adagio in concerto RV 237 or the delicate slow movements accompanied by the pizzicato of the strings in concertos RV 314 and RV 226.

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Vivaldi: Violin Concertos vol. 10, 'Intorno a Pisendel' / Chauvin, La Concert de la Loge
Naïve Sep 2022
CD
$18.99

Vivaldi: Complete Flute Sonatas / ConSerto Musico
Brilliant Classics Jan 2001
CD
$13.99

Laudate Pueri Dominum
Supraphon Apr 2008
CD
$31.99

Vivaldi (Dallapiccola): Cellosonaten
Musicaphon May 2011
CD
$16.99

Vivaldi: Concertos for 4 Violins / Banchini, Ensemble 415

Alpha

$11.99 Sep 25, 2015

13 distinct titles introduce this exciting new series uniting the finest Alpha and ZZT Baroque recordings. Discover - or rediscover - universally known works as well as world premiere recordings of rarities. Newly conducted artist interviews allow for fresh perspectives on their recordings. All releases, digipak in format with trilingual booklets, feature photographs by great (Magnum Cooperative) contemporary artists adorning the covers and a strong ‘queen of colors’ scheme, bringing to mind gods, kings, warriors, the devil, life, violence and death... Themes omnipresent in Baroque art!

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Vivaldi: Concertos for 4 Violins / Banchini, Ensemble 415
Alpha Sep 2015
CD
$11.99

Seasons: Oliver Davis; Antonio Vivaldi

Signum Classics

$19.99 Oct 09, 2015

Seasons combines Antonio Vivaldi's timeless concerto cycle The Four Seasons, performed by the Trafalgar Sinfonia and soloist Kerenza Peacock, with a new contrasting composition by British composer Oliver Davis. Inspired by the same set of poetry upon which Vivaldi based his Four Seasons, Davis's new work Anno, performed by Grace Davidson, is a composition for orchestra and solo soprano. This release follows the success of Davis's debut Signum album Flight earlier this year (SIGCD411): "... exuberant works are performed with charisma and sensitivity by Kerenza Peacock and the LSO." (BBC Music Magazine) Since graduating the RAM in 1994, Oliver Davis has composed and produced numerous concertos, albums, soundtracks and television scores working with all the major London orchestras.

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Seasons: Oliver Davis; Antonio Vivaldi
Signum Classics Oct 2015
CD
$19.99