Vivaldi reviews
Vivaldi Four Seasons: in search of the best recording (and the strangest)
These four revolutionary violin concertos remain Vivaldi's most-loved works. Lucy Chaudhuri rounds up the best recordings of The Four Seasons to date, and adds in three wild cards for good measure
Vivaldi Gloria: a guide to this dazzling cantata-mass and its best recordings
Andrew Stewart introduces Vivaldi’s much loved choral masterpiece, the Gloria, and finds the recordings which reveal its drama and expressive heart
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos
L’Onda Armonica/Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) (Naïve)
Vivaldi's Seasons
Bolette Roed (recorder); Arte dei Suonatori (Pentatone)
Paganini • Tartini • Vivaldi: Concertos, etc
Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), Massimiliano Toni (harpsichord); L’arte del mondo/Werner Ehrhardt (Sony Classical)
Settecento
Tabea Debus (recorder); La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (Signum Classics)
Contralto (Nathalie Stutzmann)
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto); Orfeo 55 (Erato)
Queen of Baroque (Cecilia Bartoli)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), et al; Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (Decca)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Conunova)
Alexandra Conunova(violin), Paolo Corsi (harpsichord), et al (Aparté)
The Art of the Mandolin (Avi Avital)
Avi Avital (mandolin), et al; Venice Baroque Orchestra (DG)
Vivaldi: Argippo
Emőke Baráth, Marie Lys (soprano), et al; Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (Naïve)
Vivaldi: Lost Concertos for Anna Maria
Federico Guglielmo (violin); Modo Antiquo/Federico Maria Sardelli, et al (Glossa)
Vivaldi: Il Tamerlano
Bruno Taddia, Delphine Galou, et al; Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (Naïve)
What's Next Vivaldi?
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin); Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (Alpha Classics)
The Four Seasons of Camille and Julie
Camille Berthollet (violin, cello) Julie Berthollet (cello etc), et al (Warner Classics)
Piazzolla • Vivaldi: Four Seasons
Arabella Steinbacher (violin); Munich Chamber Orchestra (Pentatone)
Extra Time
La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (Signum Classics)
Vivaldi: Flute Concertos, etc
Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (flute) (Alpha Classics)
JS Bach • Goldberg • Vivaldi: Concertos, etc
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Mario Brunello (cello), et al (Arcana)
Works by Handel & Vivaldi
Grace Davidson; Academy of Ancient Music/Joseph Crouch (Signum Records)
Cantata: yet can I hear…
Bejun Mehta; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Pentatone)
Vivaldi: Concertos for strings; Concertos for viola d’amore
Alessandro Tampieri; Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (Naive)
Vivaldi: Gloria in D; Nisi Dominus; Nulla in mundo pax sincera
Julia Lezhneva, Franco Fagioli; Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera; I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Decca)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; plus Concerto for strings and Violin Concertos
Rachel Podger (violin); Brecon Baroque (Channel Classics)