Naive Vivaldi

Ottavio Dantone, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Alessandro De Marchi - Vivaldi, Il Furioso! (2006)

Ottavio Dantone, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Alessandro De Marchi, Giorgio Tabacco, Alfredo Bernardini, Gottfried von der Goltz - Vivaldi, Il Furioso! (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 394 Mb | Total time: 77:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | OP30432 | Recorded: 2000-2006

This disc is a sampler of Vivaldi discs released by France's Naïve label, and it's highly recommended to listeners who haven't yet given these recordings a try. The group of performers is pan-European, with French singers and Italian instrumentalists especially strongly represented, but a compilation like this brings home how well this label has done at forging a unified artistic vision. Its Vivaldi indeed tends toward "furious," as the title proclaims; it is also garish, energetic, dynamically extreme, and in every way devoted to making Vivaldi out as a rebel in his time.
Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Vivaldi: Concerti per violino X 'Intorno a Pisendel' (2022)

Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Vivaldi: Concerti per violino X 'Intorno a Pisendel' (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 60:04 | 346 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: naïve

This tenth volume of violin concertos marks the return of Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge to the Vivaldi Edition, with works linked to Pisendel, a major musical figure in the court of Dresden in the 18th century. Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge released a hugely successful volume of Vivaldi concertos with a theatrical theme in 2020.
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Vivaldi 12 Concertos Op.3 'Estro Armonico', Bach Keyboards Arrangements (2022)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Vivaldi 12 Concertos Op.3 'Estro Armonico', Bach Keyboards Arrangements (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:37:36 | 850 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: naïve

By its title and its twelve violin concertos, Vivaldi’s L’estro armonico immediately captures the imagination. Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano, with the addition of high-calibre keyboardists, present the full collection with the six additional adaptations for keyboard by Bach.

Antonio Vivaldi - Concertos Vol II [6CDs] (2013)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Dec. 17, 2023
Antonio Vivaldi - Concertos Vol II [6CDs] (2013)

Antonio Vivaldi - Concertos Vol II [6CDs] (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,85 Gb | TT: 6h 41m | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30556 | Recorded: 1994-2011

Fireworks, virtuosity and bravura pieces are essential ingredients of Vivaldi’s concerto oeuvre. Discover or rediscover Vivaldi’s concertos played by the most prestigious artists.
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Griselda (2005)

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Griselda (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 791 Mb | Total time: 58:58+59:28+36:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30419 | Recorded: 2005

Written in 1735 for his protégée Anna Girò, Griselda takes a story from Boccaccio and turns it into a hymn of praise to nobility and constancy. Yet though the story is tired and true, Vivaldi's music is real and vibrant and as attractive as anything in his instrumental works. In this recording by Jean-Christophe Spinosi leading the Matheus Ensemble with Marie-Nicole Lemeux in the title role, Naïve has released another strong argument for the high quality of Vivaldi's operas. Spinosi has a light hand but a dramatic touch and he keeps the music moving even while granting the soloists ample scope to develop their characters.
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Alessandro De Marchi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Vivaldi Operas Vol. 1 (2004)

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Alessandro De Marchi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Vivaldi Operas Vol. 1 (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 63:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30401 | Recorded: 2000, 2002, 2003

The most beautiful arias from the Vivaldi Edition: La verità in cimento, Juditha Triumphans, L'Olimpiade, Orlando finto pazzo. The album includes outstanding singers and arias that were sensational discoveries when first introduced in this series.

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Vivaldi: Farnace (2009)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 4, 2023
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Vivaldi: Farnace (2009)

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Vivaldi: Farnace (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:29:12 | 996 Mb
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Naïve | Catalog: OP30471

Farnace was apparently one of Vivaldi's favorite operas because he mounted numerous productions in various cities and wrote six versions of the score, more than of any of his other operas. The conventions of operatic vocal characterizations that came to be standard higher voices in the sympathetic roles and lower voices in villainous roles had not yet been established, and Farnace features a baritone and contralto in the heroic roles, with a soprano as the villain.
Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi, Dmitry Sinkovsky – Vivaldi: Concerti per due violini e archi, Vol.1 (2013)

Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi, Dmitry Sinkovsky – Vivaldi: Concerti per due violini e archi, Vol.1 (2013)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 53:41 | 336 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: OP 30550

This is the 51st title in the Vivaldi Edition and the 6th volume, out of approximately 12, of the series dedicated to the violin concertos whose manuscripts are held in the National Library of Turin. Following two successful volumes of concertos for solo violin and orchestra recorded separately in the Vivaldi Edition, virtuosos Riccardo Minasi and Dmitry Sinkovsky now join forces to record pyrotechnic concertos for two violins and orchestra.
Sergio Azzolini, l’Aura Soave Cremona - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti Concerti per fagotto III (2013)

Sergio Azzolini, l’Aura Soave Cremona - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti Concerti per fagotto III (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 70:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30539 | Recorded: 2012

Like each of its two predecessors in Naive's bizarrely costumed, irresistible Vivaldi bassoon concertos series, Sergio Azzolini and his back to the future original instrument crew find beauties in the music written for the bassoon that defy gravity. Interleaved with the haunting minor key songs and harmonies are courtly B flat expressions of affection and pleasure. The recordings, made at the Church of the Madonna della Formigola, Cortifella Pieve, Brescia, are audiophile as always. The great notes by Sergio Azzolini are titled Mystery of the Bassoon. The bassoon is in fact the instrument assigned the largest number of solo concertos after those written for the violin, the composer's own instrument.
Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli - Vivaldi: New Discoveries (2009)

Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli - Vivaldi: New Discoveries (2009)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:08:39 | 395 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: 30480

In his definitive study of the composer's life and work, Michael Talbot spoke of the prospect of 'perpetual discovery' in respect of Vivaldi, resulting from a neglect spanning centuries. 'Scarcely a year passes,' he wrote in 1978, 'without the announcement of some fresh discovery'. This CD gives an excellent example of what we might expect even now, 30 years after Talbot's study, with a collection of new finds from just the last year and a half!