[Arthaus 100228] BARTOLI, Cecilia: Viva Vivaldi! Arias and Concertos

BARTOLI, Cecilia: Viva Vivaldi! Arias and Concertos (PAL)

Cecilia Bartoli / Il Giardino Armonico: Viva Vivaldi

Concert, Produced by Colin Wilson
With Cecilia Bartoli, Giovanni Antonini (Conductor and Flautino Soloist), Enrico Onofri,
Marco Bianchi (violins), Luca Pianca (lute), Maria Grazia d'Alessio (oboe) / Concert Master: Enrico Onofri

Running Time: 106 min
Recording Date: 2000
Menu languages: PAL GB, D, F, SP / NTSC GB, JP, F, SP
Subtitle languages : PAL GB, D, F, SP, I / NTSC GB, JP, F, SP, I
Region Code: 0
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.0, DTS
Sel. No. 100 228 PAL / 100 229 NTSC

Certainly more than just the composer of the Four Seasons, Vivaldi also wrote hundreds of largely famous instrumental works, and his glorious church music is well known; but it wasn't until recent decades that his operas - of which he is said to have written more than fifty - were resurrected.

From the very first, the concerts given by talented mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli together with the Italian period music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, received universal acclaim. Above all they performed unknown works that had to be copied from Vivaldi's original manuscripts: the concert program encompassed arias and instrumental works from the operas L'Olimpiade, Tito Manlio, Ottone in Villa, Farnace, Bajazet, La fida ninfa, from the oratorio Juditha Triumphans and the Gloria. Consisting of seventeen musicians, the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico also performed two Vivaldi concertos under its conductor Giovanni Antonini.

Brian Large's images immortalize this exceptional musical gathering: under the title of "Viva Vivaldi!" the concert reproduced here was recorded in September 2000 at the "Théatre des Champs-Élysées" in Paris.

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[downstube]

Amazing sound. Incredible accuracy.

She looks a little funny at times. But I love that. I like that she cares more about the sound and attitude she is creating, more than how she is going to look when singing these impossible scales.

[RACHELGOTIK]

viva vivaldi!!! excelente interpretación

[TheMelanouille]

je n'ai pas de mots....j'en reste coite.

[Davidoff73]

divine