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BBC - Vivaldi Unmasked (2002)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 8, 2021
BBC - Vivaldi Unmasked (2002)

BBC - Vivaldi Unmasked (2002)
HDTV | 1920x1080 | .MKV/AVC @ 2763 Kbps | 58 min 30 s | 1.18 GiB
Audio: English AAC 132 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary

Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores the life of composer Antonio Vivaldi, examining the development of his music and his most famous work, The Four Seasons. Having mastered the violin and been hailed a child prodigy, the ordained priest and teacher went on to court scandal by embarking on a passionate affair with a much younger woman, and ended his life penniless and far from home.
Monica Huggett, Raglan Baroque Players, Nicholas Kraemer - Antonio Vivaldi: La Cetra, Op. 9 (1987) 2CDs

Antonio Vivaldi: La Cetra, Op. 9 (1987) 2CDs
Monica Huggett (violin); Raglan Baroque Players; Nicholas Kraemer, direction

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 545 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 270 Mb | Scans ~ 32 Mb
Classical | Label: EMI | # CDS 7 47829 8 | Time: 01:56:39

For all the charges of unacceptable schematicism levelled at Vivaldi and his kind, Monica Huggett, as supremely imaginative as well as technically and stylistically accomplished an exponent of the baroque violin as any, demonstrates clearly that this music benefits from the guiding hand of a charismatic interpreter: her delivery of Vivaldi’s exuberant, even manic, inspiration is never less than involving and, in the slow movements, never less than touching.
Federico Guglielmo, L'Arte dell'Arco - Antonio Vivaldi: Ottone in Villa (2010)

Federico Guglielmo, L'Arte dell'Arco - Antonio Vivaldi: Ottone in Villa (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 718 Mb | Total time: 72:08+67:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94105 | Recorded: 2008

Antonio Vivaldi’s fame as an opera composer is due in now small part to his incredible industry. He composed around 50 operas, and of these around 16 have survived complete – several substantial fragments of others have also survived. It is for his instrumental music that he remains one of the major baroque composers – on a par with Handel and J.S. Bach, however, in the world of opera at the time, only one other composer rivalled Vivaldi in the use of orchestral colour and the way in which the human voice was blended with the accompaniment. The writing for voice generally is on a very high level. The rival was of course Handel, and Vivaldi also was a considerable impressario as was his German/British colleague.

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Vivaldi: Motezuma (2011)  Music

Posted by Vilboa at May 22, 2023
Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Vivaldi: Motezuma (2011)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Vivaldi: Motezuma (2011)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 4.22+7.45 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 153 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol

Motezuma is Vivaldi’s only opera set in the New World. The manuscripts for this rarely performed and rarely heard opera were only rediscovered in 2002 and currently only one CD version exists recorded by Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco. Of the CD recording, BBC Music Magazine wrote: “The instrumentalists of Il Complesso Barocco are on excellent form as indeed is Vivaldi himself in a rewarding score”.
Aureliusz Goliński, Arte dei Suonatori - Antonio Vivaldi: Concertos for Strings (2011)

Aureliusz Goliński, Arte dei Suonatori - Antonio Vivaldi: Concertos for Strings (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 61:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-1845 CD | Recorded: 2009

It is a familiar fact that Antonio Vivaldi was a prime mover in the creation of the solo concerto, but what is less well known is that he also was the leading exponent of the older concerto a quattro – music in four parts, with several players to a part, intended for what we nowadays would call a string orchestra with continuo. As Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot explains in his informative liner notes, these works are notable not only for their beauty, but also for their experimental character and for providing the most important examples of fugal writing in Vivaldi’s instrumental music. It is not known when Vivaldi started to write them, but most of the almost fifty concertos probably originate from the 1720s and 1730s. .
Raphael Wallfisch, City of London Sinfonia, Nicholas Kraemer - Vivaldi: Complete Cello Concertos, Vol. 1-4 (1995) 4CD

Antonio Vivaldi - Cello Concerti, Volume 1-4 (1995) 4CDs
Raphael Wallfisch, cello; City of London Sinfonia; Nicholas Kraemer, director & harpsichord

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.1 Gb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550907-8.550910 | Time: 03:57:58

Naxos intend to record Vivaldi’s entire orchestral corpus, and Raphael Wallfisch’s integral four-disc survey of the 27 cello concertos inaugurates this visionary, though plainly Herculean undertaking. Soloist and orchestra employ modern instruments; director Nicholas Kraemer contends that authentic protocols can be ably met by contemporary ensembles and, in articulation, style and ornamentation, these pristine, engaging readings have little to fear from period practitioners. Wallfisch’s pointed, erudite and spirited playing is supported with enlightened restraint by the CLS, directed from either harpsichord or chamber organ by Kraemer, whose sensitive continuo team merits high praise throughout. Without exception, these Concertos adopt an orthodox fast-slow-fast three-movement format. Wallfisch, dutifully observant in matters of textual fidelity, plays outer movements with verve, energy and lucidity, such that high-register passagework, an omnipresent feature of these works, is enunciated with the pin-sharp focus of Canaletto’s images of 18th-century Venice, which adorn the covers of these issues.
Nils Mönkemeyer, L'arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt - Vivaldi, Paganini, Tartini (2021)

Nils Mönkemeyer, L'arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt - Vivaldi, Paganini, Tartini (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 60:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439730032 | Recorded: 2019

Though Mönkemeyer’s playing has an evident sense of period, he’s not performance practice, he’s not hidebound by the imperatives of the time-honoured treatises. He revels in Paganini’s honeyed lyricism, and brings a finely-honed intensity to interpolated cadenzas…L’arte del mondo directed by Werner Ehrhardt prove spirited companions.
Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir and Players - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria & Magnificat (1994)

Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir and Players - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria & Magnificat (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 67:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 7 59326 2 | Recorded: 1992

Parrott's decision to perform this selection of Vivaldi's sacred music with sopranos and altos shows how the all-female forces of La Pietà might have coped with tenor and bass lines. Delectable performances in superior sound.
Rachel Podger, Holland Baroque Society - Vivaldi: La Cetra 12 Violin Concertos (2012)

Rachel Podger, Holland Baroque Society - Vivaldi: La Cetra 12 Violin Concertos (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:58:29 | 646 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Channel Classics | Catalog: CCSSA33412

After recording Vivaldi's set of Violin Concertos 'La Stravaganza', Opus 4, in 2003, Rachel Podger has been immersed in music by Mozart and Bach on disc. But it has now felt right to come back to the Venetian Maestro, whose sense of drama she adores: “This time I chose his opus 9, the set of 12 Violin concertos entitled 'La Cetra'. There are plenty of jewels in this set, just as in 'La Stravaganza', with even higher technical demands made on the soloist including many, often exotic experimental effects.”
Elizabeth Wallfisch, Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Antonio Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico (2007)

Elizabeth Wallfisch, Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Antonio Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 353 Mb + 2,38 Gb (dvd bonus) | Total time: 63:30+54:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony | # 88697190442 | Recorded: 2007

The performances are scintillating, dynamic, articulate, and vibrant, the virtuoso violin solos by Elizabeth Wallfisch occupying a playfully precarious edge between daring excitement and temporal excess–a stance joined in equal measure by her fellow soloists and her very fine orchestral partners. This is Vivaldi performance uninhibited by self-conscious stylistic gestures or distracting "period" mannerisms–it's just informed, virtuosic ensemble playing.