Vivaldi

[Beef Oven!]

Have been dong so since you first posted the YouTube link. I will be downloading from QOBUZ later.

I've been listening too and I may well buy. However, I have the Fabio Biondi Europa Galante set, which is a very lively affair indeed! So maybe I should think about putting my money into some other Vivaldi. I also have Il Giardino Armonico's RV 558 In Tromba Marina which, is splendid; customary woodwind playing with loads of scraping and violence on the strings!. But this music as per Ensemble Matheus, does benefit, among other things, from not being taken at 400 MPH!

[BBMmk2]

I have lost touch with Vivaldi's music, as I have quite a bit of late concentrated more on 20th century works, and the kind of music that The sixteen do.

However, I do ofcourse rather like Vivaldi's concerto for two trumpets. I also have Trevor Pinnock's box set of recordings that he has made. I also have the complete sacred music of Vivaldi, on Hyperion. I think a revisit of this period is necessary.

[Beef Oven!]

I have lost touch with Vivaldi's music, as I have quite a bit of late concentrated more on 20th century works, and the kind of music that The sixteen do.

However, I do ofcourse rather like Vivaldi's concerto for two trumpets. I also have Trevor Pinnock's box set of recordings that he has made. I also have the complete sacred music of Vivaldi, on Hyperion. I think a revisit of this period is necessary.

[Richard Barrett]

I've been listening too and I may well buy. However, I have the Fabio Biondi Europa Galante set, which is a very lively affair indeed!

The repertoire isn't quite the same though... you know you want it really...

[Beef Oven!]

The repertoire isn't quite the same though... you know you want it really...

You're right, I should go ahead. All my dithering, I hope Qobuz have still got some left.

[MickyD]

It's in Michael Talbot's Vivaldi monograph, which is an interesting book for things like this but otherwise a bit limited, presumably for reasons of keeping its overall size down.

I seem to remember (way back in the 80s) a much larger and luxurious Vivaldi book by Michael Talbot. Or am I imagining it?

[Beef Oven!]

I seem to remember (way back in the 80s) a much larger and luxurious Vivaldi book by Michael Talbot. Or am I imagining it?

You just told us you are imagining it! Do you mean are your imaginations correct

[Richard Barrett]

I seem to remember (way back in the 80s) a much larger and luxurious Vivaldi book by Michael Talbot. Or am I imagining it?

Not sure - the one I have in mind is one of the OUP "Master Musicians" series, I think I picked it up remaindered somewhere.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I seem to remember (way back in the 80s) a much larger and luxurious Vivaldi book by Michael Talbot. Or am I imagining it?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vivaldi-Compendium-Michael-Talbot/dp/1843838192

... described here as a "2013 reprint"?

[MickyD]

No, it's none of those - it was, if you'll forgive me, a sort of coffee-table affair - but definitely by Michael Talbot. Maybe it was a more fully illustrated version of the ones mentioned here.

[Bryn]

No, it's none of those - it was, if you'll forgive me, a sort of coffee-table affair - but definitely by Michael Talbot. Maybe it was a more fully illustrated version of the ones mentioned here.

This, edited by Michael Talbot, perhaps?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This, edited by Michael Talbot, perhaps?

Not "from back in the '80s", though.

The list of publications in Professor Talbot's CV does not suggest that he authored any book matching MickyD's description in the 1980s (the "Dent" publication from 1978 is the Master Musicians volume):

http://vivaldinew.homestead.com/files/TALBOT_PROF_MICHAEL_CV_.pdf

[LeMartinPecheur]

I've built up a fair old pile of Vivaldi discs over the last 40 yrs. When I saw a CD described as 'Late violin concertos' for not very much money I was sufficiently intrigued to buy, at the same time remarking to a friend that I wondered how late Vivaldi would match up to op106 or 131

Well, I think I see the point of the label, seems Vivaldi did get up to something different in his old age, develop a new style much less bothered about regularity, always being pleasant and never saying boo to a goose, more concerned to do something different and 'If I wanna say it I'll say it, if you don't like it you know what you can do'.

Or has the label on the tin made me hear something that isn't there???

This is the disc

[vinteuil]

I've built up a fair old pile of Vivaldi discs over the last 40 yrs. When I saw a CD described as 'Late violin concertos' for not very much money I was sufficiently intrigued to buy, at the same time remarking to a friend that I wondered how late Vivaldi would match up to op106 or 131

Well, I think I see the point of the label, seems Vivaldi did get up to something different in his old age, develop a new style much less bothered about regularity, always being pleasant and never saying boo to a goose, more concerned to do something different and 'If I wanna say it I'll say it, if you don't like it you know what you can do'.

Or has the label on the tin made me hear something that isn't there???

This is the disc

... I thought this was excellent, and a different Vivaldi from the one we thought we knew.

You might also like -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00006JNAB

and

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00004T2PT

[Beef Oven!]

I think I've bought all the Giuliano Carmignola and Fabio Biondi CDs of the late Vivaldi concertos and I would agree with what's been said. I'd like to add a prompt for this Fabio Biondi CD which is utterly amazing, IMV.