BaL 22.12.18 - Vivaldi: Gloria RV589

[BBMmk2]

I need a new recording of this so this should be very good.

[Goon525]

Does anyone know why Caroline Gill, a most welcome addition to the Gramophone reviewing team about three years ago, didn’t stay there very long?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Hasn't just about everyone (especially those of us who sing in amateur choirs) got the King's version in its coupling with the Nelson Mass?

Yes. It's the only version I have.

[MickyD]

Surprisingly, I only have three versions so might be tempted by a recommendation:

I first got to know the work when our choir sang it in the early 80s (and several times since). At the time I got AAM/Preston, which will always be a favourite. It was in this recording and the Dowland madrigals that many of us fell in love with Emma Kirkby.

I love Sara Mingardo's warm, dark alto and her recording with Patricia Biccire & Deborah York, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini is a delight. The breakneck tempo of the opening is bracing and I can take it, but it may go against it as a library version.

In the light of more recent recordings the 1962 pre-HIPP Kings/ASMF/Willcocks may not quite be my first choice but I still very much enjoy it - light and natural sounding + Janet Baker in the alto part.

I agree about the Alessandrini - it is exhilaratingly fast and enjoyable when you are in the mood, but whether it is the only one to live with as a library version is another question. I find it rather operatic in its way. I do think that the AAM one still holds up very well against the more recent competition.

[BBMmk2]

I agree about the Alessandrini - it is exhilaratingly fast and enjoyable when you are in the mood, but whether it is the only one to live with as a library version is another question. I find it rather operatic in its way. I do think that the AAM one still holds up very well against the more recent competition.

Why’s that?

[MickyD]

Why’s that?

Several reasons really...the springy but not rushed speeds, excellent soloists, a stunning boys' choir, the AAM in their vintage years and that marvellous L'Oiseau Lyre recorded sound in the hands of the brilliant Peter Wadland.

[ardcarp]

There are various different editions of Vivaldi's Gloria.

https://acda.org//files/choral_journals/November_1980_Barrow_L.pdf

The blue vocal score (Ricordi) which used to abound in the UK was the truncated and inaccurate Casella edition...and it was always a good idea to hire orchestral parts which were the same!

[DracoM]

The reviewer.....crikey! If she's going to talk about tempi, maybe she needs to listen back to the dizzying speed of her OWN delivery. Far too fast on radio.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Exactly what I was thinking . It needs to be Allegro MA NON TROPPO. Also it really sounds like she's reading a script ....

[MickyD]

Exactly what I was thinking . It needs to be Allegro MA NON TROPPO. Also it really sounds like she's reading a script ....

...or a telephone directory.

[Beef Oven!]

Not enjoying this broadcast.

[DracoM]

And she's going faster and faster...............CRAZY!

[MickyD]

What's this 'Spav' version she keeps going on about?

[Ein Heldenleben]

And she's going faster and faster...............CRAZY!

Probably had a coffee delivered during one of the longer extracts

[Beef Oven!]

Slow down, stupid people!