L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera III (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 323 Mb | Total time: 60:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30381 | Recorded: 2000, 2003
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 323 Mb | Total time: 60:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30381 | Recorded: 2000, 2003
The project to record all of the 450-odd works by Vivaldi held by the National University Library of Turin proceeds apace. It only seems yesterday that I was reviewing the opera "Orlando Furioso". For that set a very radical band of period performers was chosen, the Ensemble Matheus. L’Astrée – a Turin group in spite of its French name – are less radical in the sense that they don’t make their instruments rasp and bite, but I would say no less imaginative. With the help of a really lifelike recording – the instruments truly seemed to be in my listening room – the music just leaps off the page.