Several large projects devoted to Vivaldi's sacred music got underway in the early 2000s, and this disc, billed as volume one of a series on the Naxos label, apparently begins what is likely to become, given the completist tendencies of the label, a voluminous new one. It stands on its own just fine, however, for the general listeners who may be drawn by Naxos' budget prices. The disc presents, in a word, the "other" Gloria (RV 588) and the "other" Dixit Dominus (RV 595), works by Vivaldi that are companion pieces to his ...
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Several large projects devoted to Vivaldi's sacred music got underway in the early 2000s, and this disc, billed as volume one of a series on the Naxos label, apparently begins what is likely to become, given the completist tendencies of the label, a voluminous new one. It stands on its own just fine, however, for the general listeners who may be drawn by Naxos' budget prices. The disc presents, in a word, the "other" Gloria (RV 588) and the "other" Dixit Dominus (RV 595), works by Vivaldi that are companion pieces to his better-known settings of the same texts, the Gloria, RV 589, and Dixit Dominus, RV 594. If you're looking for the piece commonly called "Vivaldi's Gloria" (with its trumpet-punctuated double "Gloria!" exclamation at the beginning), it's not on this disc (as the back cover does explain). But if you like that piece and want more in the same vein, these performances by Canada's Arcadia Ensemble may be just the thing. The final section of this Dixit Dominus, especially, is of a piece with...
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