Naïve's Vivaldi Edition: La verità in cimento is a highlights disc drawn from Opus 111's 2002 complete recording of Antonio Vivaldi's 1720 opera, made in conjunction with the revival of this work at the Bologna Festival, albeit with a different group of singers. This recording has an excellent frontline cast, including veteran singers such as Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Gemma Bertagnolli, Guillemette Laurens, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Sara Mingardo and one 2002 up-and-comer, Philippe Jaroussky, who has a secondary part, but whose ...
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Naïve's Vivaldi Edition: La verità in cimento is a highlights disc drawn from Opus 111's 2002 complete recording of Antonio Vivaldi's 1720 opera, made in conjunction with the revival of this work at the Bologna Festival, albeit with a different group of singers. This recording has an excellent frontline cast, including veteran singers such as Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Gemma Bertagnolli, Guillemette Laurens, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Sara Mingardo and one 2002 up-and-comer, Philippe Jaroussky, who has a secondary part, but whose subsequent status appears to have bumped him up to first-named in the credits. Jaroussky is the only vocalist here to have survived from the original Bologna Festival production. The band is Ensemble Matheus under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi, and the instrumental complement is especially aggressive in executing extreme dynamics in Vivaldi. Some may find it a bit much; Spinosi's group almost makes Fabio Biondi's sound romantic in approach, though conversely in Europe...
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