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Antonio Vivaldi

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalChristmas Week 3

    Dec 18th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalChristmas, #ClassicsaDay, Antonio Vivaldi, Classical music, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Sammartini, Holiday music, Max Reger, Pietro Locatelli, Twitter

    For the past four years, the #ClassicsaDay team has adopted  Classical Christmas as its theme for December. And why not? We have a rich body of music related to the season dating back to the Middle Ages. A good deal of it is religious, but not all — many works are simply inspired by the […]

  • Per la Notte di Natale – superb Christmas concertos

    Dec 14th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, Baroque music, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto Copenhagen, Francesco manfredini, Giuseppe Torelli, Holiday music, Lars Ulrick Mortensen, Naxos, Noteworthy Release, Pietro Locatelli

    Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas Concerto (Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8) often turns up on classical Christmas music albums. And I admit I never quite understood why. To my ears, there wasn’t anything especially Christmassy about it. That’s what makes this release so welcome. The liner notes explain the aesthetic behind these Italian […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalDoubleDigits Week 4

    Jan 24th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalDoubleDigits, #ClassicsaDay, Antonio Vivaldi, Classical music, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Strauss, Jr., Nikolai Myaskovsky, Twitter

    The Classics a Day team noted that the new year is comprised of two twenties — double digits. So the theme for January 2020 is to post other examples of double digits found in classical music. Prolific composers are a good place to start. But I found a few surprises among composers with very small […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Opus1 Annotated List Week 2

    Jan 12th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #Opus1, Antonio Vivaldi, Franz Schubert, Frederic Chopin, Lowell Liebermann, Sergei Prokofiev, Twitter

    I’m a regular contributor to the #ClassicsaDay Twitter feed. For January 2018, I decided to mark the first month of the new year with firsts. Each post features the first published work of a different composer. Emphasis on the word “published,” In some cases, the Opus 1 is the first mature work of the composer. […]

  • Camilla de Falleiro Gives Bravura Performances of Vivaldi Cantatas

    Jun 1st, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Accademia Apollinea, Antonio Vivaldi, Ars Produktion, Baroque music, Camilla de Falleiro, CD Review, Classical music, SACD

    Vivaldi holds nothing back in this chamber cantatas for soprano and basso continuo. The works were meant to show off the abilities of the soloist. Soprano Camilla de Falleiro is more than up to the challenges. And there are many in these cantatas. The scores are full of wide leaps, sustained tones in the high […]

  • Tasmin Little & Roxanna Panufnik – Four World Seasons

    Feb 15th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Antonio Vivaldi, Baroque music, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chandos, contemporary classical music, Roxanna Panufnik, SACD, Tasmin Little

    It’s an interesting program, coupling Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” with Roxanna Panufnik’s modern take on the same subject. And it’s one that works very well. The connective thread is the talent of violinist Tasmin Little. Little’s performance of the “Four Seasons” with the BBC Symphony Orchestra is a spirited one. Her solo work is beautifully crafted […]

  • Venetian Christmas Good for All Seasons

    Mar 18th, 2015 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Antonio Vivaldi, Arte dei Suonatori, Baroque music, BIS, CD Review, Ewa Golínska, Fulgenzio Perotti, Giuseppe Torelli, Johann Adolph Hasse, Komalé Akakpo, Martin Gester, Ruby Hughes, SACD

    Don’t let the title mislead you. Yes, “Venetian Christmas” is a compilation of music that was played during the Christmas season in Venice during the 1750’s. But there’s nothing that would make it sound “seasonal” to modern ears. Many of the selections feature the psaltery, an ancestor of the hammered dulcimer. The soft, warm tones […]

  • Miho Fukui performs Vivaldi bassoon concertos with energy

    Dec 19th, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Antonio Vivaldi, Ars, Baroque music, CD Review, Concerto, Ensemble F, Miho Fukui, SACD

    Antonio Vivaldi wrote over 30 concertos for the bassoon, giving Miho Fukui a lot to choose from. Five of them, plus the Sinfonia from “Il Giustino”, RV 217 make up this new release. Included is the concerto in B-flat major, “La Notte,” RV 501, an oft-recorded work. Bassoonist Miho Fukui plays with a rich, full-bodied […]

  • Vivaldi – Return of Angels

    Jan 4th, 2012 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Analekta, Antonio Vivaldi, Baroque music, CD Review, Classical music, Ensemble Caprice, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Matthias Maute

    “The Return of Angels” is billed as a collection of Vivaldi’s sacred music arranged in an attractive program. The Ensemble Caprice under Matthias Maute perform these works with a lightness and transparency that make for an enjoyable listening experience. The disc starts with Juditha triumphans, one of Vivaldi’s four surviving oratorios. Originally, this music was […]

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