This box collects four of the most prominent examples of a new trend in the performance of Vivaldi's music, and it's a fine bargain; it's rare to get discount prices on something that is still, for many listeners, something genuinely new and different. The music has been released on the French label Naïve, but the musicians are Italian. If their approach had to be summed up in a sentence, you could say (as conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini has said) that they take opera as the genre that defined the style of Italian music in ...
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This box collects four of the most prominent examples of a new trend in the performance of Vivaldi's music, and it's a fine bargain; it's rare to get discount prices on something that is still, for many listeners, something genuinely new and different. The music has been released on the French label Naïve, but the musicians are Italian. If their approach had to be summed up in a sentence, you could say (as conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini has said) that they take opera as the genre that defined the style of Italian music in Vivaldi's time, and that instrumental concertos should be played with the dramatic intensity of opera. This means, in varying proportions among the different ensembles represented in this box, blistering (or excruciatingly slow) tempos, violent instrumental attacks, big dynamic contrasts, attempts to push the solo instruments (always historically appropriate ones, which helps) to their technical extremes, and generally a large dose of sheer dramatic attitude. You can hear examples...
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