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New Books
| Reinhard Strohm. The Operas of Antonio
Vivaldi. Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Studi di musica veneta -
Quaderni vivaldiani, vol. 13.
Details. Olschki (forthcoming). ISBN: 8822256829. |
| Peter Ryom. RV - Antonio Vivaldi.
Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke
(Thematic-systematic Catalogue of His Works). Breitkopf & Härtel
2007.
Details with sample pages (pdf). 633 pages. This much
expanded new edition of the RV thematic catalogue contains all
the known works of Vivaldi with incipits for all movements and
cross references showing self-borrowings. Reviewed by Clifford
Bartlett in EMR 121:12-13 (October 2007). Highly
recommended!
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| Eleanor Selfridge-Field. A New Chronology of
Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760. Stanford
University Press, September 2007. 784 pages.
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| Melania Bucciarelli & Berta Joncus (eds.)
Music as Social and Cultural Practice: Essays in Honour of
Reinhard Strohm.
Details. Includes "How operatic is Vivaldi's Juditha
triumphans" by Michael Talbot. Boydell Press, July 2007. 464
pages.
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| Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Song and Season:
Science, Culture and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice.
Stanford University Press, September 2007. 400 pages.
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| Michael Talbot & Federico Maria Sardelli.
Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder. Ashgate 2007.
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Vivaldi by
François Farges
Antonio Vivaldi, Passator e futuro - Conference held in June 2007 by
Fondzione Giorgio Cini. The proceedings will be published in due course.
Antonio Vivaldi Catalogue RV
The
Scanderbeg Operas of Vivaldi and Francoeur - Vivaldi's Scanderbeg (Florence
1718) is known only from the printed libretto (text by Salvi) and four arias. It
was the only Vivaldi opera in with Francesca Cuzzoni appeared (as Doneca).
Places a Vivaldi enthusiast should visit when in Venice, recommended by
RhGliere.
Review of an odd, 1998 NYC
performance of Vivaldi's Arsilda.
News
- Vivaldi's Argippo (Prague 1730) has been reconstructed based
largely on a manuscript discovered in Regensburg by Ondřej Macek after
Ryom (2007) went to press and will receive its modern premiere in Prague
by Baroque Ensemble Hofmusici on 3 May.
Details.
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A Conversation with Michael Talbot: Recent Vivaldi Discoveries. By
Frédéric Delaméa. Goldberg Magazine 33, April 2005.
- Symposium: Vivaldi's Motezuma and Exoticism in Opera Seria.
Rotterdam, 11 June 2005. Michael Talbot, chair. Additional presentations
by Reinhard Strohm, Steffen Voss, Enrico Careri and Melania Bucciarelli.
In conjunction with a performance directed by Federico Maria Sardelli.
Details.
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Vivaldi and the Pietà- lecture notes by Micky White, Librarian at the
Ospedale della Pietà Venice (pdf). Micky White's research in the
original, handwritten records of the Pietà has disproven many myths
about the Pietà that still appear regularly in scholarly books and CD
liner notes. It was an institution for unwanted and abandoned children,
but not a school for girls, a musical academy, an orphanage or a
convent. With one exception Ms. White has uncovered to date -- Santina,
who married an opera singer -- no women from are known to have violated
their promise not to perform in public after leaving the Pietà. Neither
Anna Girò nor Faustina Bordoni studied at the Pietà.
- A film to watch for: "Why Vivaldi?" (2003),
director/writer/producer: Teddy Grouya. 70 minutes.
Details.
- Six arias from the lost opera La costanza trionfante degl'amori e
degl'odii (1716) have been discovered in the archive of Berkeley
Castle, Glouscestershire.
BBC, 30 October 2004.
- If you have a broadband connection, you can watch an interesting
production of Vivaldi's Four Seasons online from the
RTSI website (scroll to bottom). It features I Barrochisti, directed
by Diego Fasolis, with Duilio Galfetti violin solo and an expanded
baroque orchestra including woodwinds, horns and hurdy-gurdy, and a
costumed actor and narrator.
- Montezuma rediscovered! About 3/4 of the the "lost" Vivaldi
opera Montezuma (1733) has been rediscovered in the archives of
the Berlin Sing-Akademie that were taken illegally to Kiev by the
Russians after WWII and returned in 2001. The beginning parts of Act I
and III and the finale to Act III are missing, but about half of the
missing music can be reconstructed based on arias with similar texts in
other Vivaldi operas. The score includes three magnificent and
heretofore unknown accompagnati for Mitrena (Anna Girò) as well as a
trio. Details are forthcoming in a paper by Steffen Voss. (Reports by
François Farges on the Viva-Vivaldi Yahoo! group.) (The Malgoire
recording of Montezuma is his own pasticcio of other Vivaldi music to
the libretto of Montezuma.) For more information about the Sing-Akademie
archives, see "Recovered in Kiev: Bach et al.: A Preliminary Report on
the Music Collection of the Berlin Sing-Akademie" by Christoph Wolff.
Notes 58.2 (2001) 259-271.
- Janice Stockigt discovered a Nisi Dominus obviously
misattributed to Galuppi in Dresden and asked Michael Talbot to confirm
whether it was composed by Vivaldi. Upon examination, Talbot discovered
that it is the lost Vesper psalm from a set of five composed by Vivaldi
in 1739 for the Pietà. Scoring is for one soprano and two altos,
strings, plus tenor chalumeau, violino in tromba marina, and viola
d'amore. It has been catalogued as RV 803 and will be performed for the
first time by the Dresdner Barockorchester on 7 December. Details about
the work and its discovery will appear in an article in the March 2004
issue of the new journal
Eighteenth Century Music. (From Andante, copied to
The Red Priest group.) Update February 2004: The new Nisi
Dominus is included in Robert King's
final volume (Vol. 10)
of Vivaldi Sacred Music on Hyperion.
- A hitherto unknown portrait of Vivaldi by Ghezzi has been discovered
in Moscow. A copy appears in Studi Vivaldiani 2-2002, together
with an article about it by Federico Maria Sardelli. (Jean
Cassignol on The Red Priest group.)
Recent Recordings other than opera
| Vivaldi. Arie ritrovate. Naïve / Opus
111 OP 30433 Vivaldi Edition (1 CD, February 2008). Sonia Prina,
contralto. Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina. Stefano
Montanari, violin. Arias from La verità in cimento, Orlando
furioso, Scanderbeg, Teuzzone & Tito Manlio, violin concerto RV
369, concerto for strings RV 136.
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| Vivaldi. Amor Profano - Arias. DG-Archiv
477 661-8 (1 CD, January 2008). Simone Kermes, soprano; Andrea
Marcon, Venice Baroque Orchestra. Arias from Olimpiade, La fede
tradita e vendicata, Orlando furioso, Tito Manlio, Semiramide,
Tigrane, Catone in Utica, Il Bajazet, Griselda, La verità in
cimento.
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| Vivaldi. Le Quattro Stagioni / Concerto for
Cello RV 403/ La Follia variations RV 63. Accent ACC 24179
(1 CD, April 2007). Sigiswald Kuijken, violin and violoncello da
spalla, La Petite Bande. Dmitri Badiarov, Luis Otavo Santos &
Sarah Kuijken, violin; Frank Agsteribbe, harpsichord. One to a
part performances with Sigiswald Kuijken playing the
shoulder-held violoncello da spalla except when he is the violin
soloist.
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| Vivaldi. Concerti per cello vol. 1.
Naïve (Opus 111) Vivaldi Edition (1 CD, March 2007). Christophe
Coin, cello.
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| Vivaldi. Musica per Mandolino e Luito.
Naïve (Opus 111) Vivaldi Edition (1 CD, January 2007). Rolf
Lislevand, lute and mandolino.
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Vivaldi,
Sammartini, Boccherini, Monza, Demachi. Improvisata -
Sinfonie con titoli. Virgin VC3634302 (1 CD, April 2007).
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante.
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| Vivaldi. 12 Sonatas for Violin and Basso
Continuo Op. 2 (1709). Glossa GCD 921202 (1 CD,
January 2007).
Details. Enrico Gatti, violin. Ensemble Aurora.
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Vivaldi.
Amor Sacro. DG-Archiv 474 5980 (1 CD, February 2007).
Details. Motetti: "In furore", "Nulla in mundo pax sincera",
"In turbato mare irato", "Sum in medio tempestatum". Simone
Kermes, soprano. Andrea Marcon, Venice Baroque Orchestra.
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| Vivaldi. Concerto Rustico. Berlin
Classics (1 CD, October 2006). Alessandro de Marchi, Academia
Montis Regalis.
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| Vivaldi, Dixit Dominus RV 807 (first
recording). Galuppi, Laetatus sum, Nisi Dominus, Lauda
Jerusalem. DG-Archiv 289 477 6145 (1 CD, April 2006).
Audio excerpts - great performance of "De torrente" by Sara
Mingardo! Liner notes:
Psalm Settings by Vivaldi and Galuppi: A Major New Discovery
from Dresden, by Michael Talbot. Peter Kopp, Körnerscher
Sing-Verein Dresden, Dresdner Instrumental-Concert. Roberta
Invernizzi, soprano; Lucia Cirillo, soprano; Sara Mingardo,
contralto; Paul Agnew, tenor; Thomas Cooley, tenor; Sergio
Foresti, bass; Georg Zeppenfeld, bass.
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| Vivaldi. Concerti per violino I - La caccia.
Naïve / Opus 111 (1 CD, March 2006). Enrico Onofri, violin.
Alessandro di Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis.
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| Vivaldi. In furore / Laudate pueri.
Naïve / Opus 111 (1 CD, March 2006). Sandrine Piau, soprano.
Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina.
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| Vivaldi. Arie per basso. Naïve / Opus
111 (1 CD, February 2006). Lorenzo Regazzo, bass. Rinaldo
Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano.
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| Vivaldi. Arie d'Opera. Opus 111 OP30411
(1 CD, August 2005). Federico Maria Sardelli, Modo Antiquo.
Sandrine Piau, soprano; Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano; Paul
Agnew, tenor; Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano.
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| Vivaldi. 9 Sonatas for Cello & Basso
Continuo. Arte dell'arco TDK-AD012 (2 CDs 2005).
Details. Hidemi Suzuki, cello; Rainer Zipperling, cello;
Eero Palviainen, lute.
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| Vivaldi. Complete Sacred Music. Hyperion
CDS 4417181 (11 CDs). Robert King, The King's Consort.
Details. This fine series has been reissued in a box set.
Texts and English translations are included, but the sleeve
notes by Michael Talbot have been omitted. However, the sleeve
notes for six of the 10 volumes are available online: [vol.
5][vol.
6][vol.
7][vol.
8][vol.
9][vol.
10]
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| Vivaldi. Concerti e cantate da camera 3.
Opus 111 OP30381 (1 CD 2005). Laura Polverelli, contralto.
Giorgio Tabacco, L'Astrée.
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| Vivaldi. Virtuoso Cantatas. Virgin
545721-2 (1 CD, February 2005).
Details. Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor. Ensemble
Artaserse. Yoko Nakamura, harpsichord & organ; Claire Antonini,
theorbo & baroque lute; Jérémie Papasergio, bassoon; Emilia
Gliozzi, cello.
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| Vivaldi, Albinoni, Porta & possibly Porpora & Biffi.
Andromeda liberata (1726). DG-Archiv 477 098-2 (2 CDs,
October 2004).
Details. A pasticcio serenata. Michael Talbot believes that
Vivaldi's only contribution was the aria "Sovvente il sole". He
"would assign Andromeda's arias to Porta, Meliso's arias, the
choruses and the Sinfonia to Porpora (who may have used the
tradition of his native city, Naples, in calling the hunting
horns trombe), Daliso's arias to Biffi (with less certainty,
however), Cassiope's arias, Perseo's other aria and perhaps
Andromeda and Perseo's duet to Albinoni."
Goldberg Magazine interview, page 2. Outstanding
recording! Andrea Marcon, Venice Baroque Orchestra. La Stagione
Armonica, Sergio Balestracci, director. Andromeda: Simone
Kermes, soprano; Cassiope: Katerina Beranova, soprano; Melise:
Anna Bonitatibus, contralto; Perseo: Max Emanuel Cencic,
countertenor; Daliso: Mark Tucker, tenor.
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| Vivaldi. Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus &
Concerto for Viola d'Amore. Mirare 9963 (1 CD, October
2004). Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort. Carlos Mena,
countertenor; François Fernandez, viola d'amore.
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| Vivaldi. Concerti e Cantate da Camera,
volume 2. Opus 111 (1 CD, August 2004). Gemma Bertagnolli,
soprano. Giorgio Tabacco, Ensemble L'Astrée.
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Vivaldi.
Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine. Opus 111
(Naïve) OP 30383 (2 CDs, September 2003). Rinaldo Alessandrini,
Concerto Italiano. Antonio de Secondi, violin. Gemma Bertagnolli,
soprano; Roberta Invernizzi, soprano; Anna Simboli, soprano;
Sara Mingardo, contralto; Gianluca Ferrarini, tenor; Mateo
Bellotto, baritone.
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| Vivaldi. Mottetti. Opus 111 (Naïve) OP
30314 (1 CD, May 2003). RV 629, 631, 633, 623, 628 & 630.
Alessandro de Marchi, Accademia Montis Regalis. Anke Herrmann,
soprano; Laura Polverelli, mezzosoprano.
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| Vivaldi. Juditha Triumphans. Opus 111
OPS 30-314 (3 CDs 2001). Alessandro de Marchi, Academia Montis
Regalis, Magdalena Kožená, Anke Herrmann, Maria José Trullu,
Marina Camparato, Tiziana Carraro, Roma Coro dell'Accademia di
Santa Cecilia. Trumpet sinfonia RV562 precedes the work.
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| Vivaldi. Juditha Triumphans. Tactus TC
672290 (2 CDs 2002). Federico Maria Sardelli, Modo Antiquo.
Juditha: Barbara di Castri, mezzo-soprano; Holofernes: Licia
Sciannimanico, mezzo-soprano; Vagaus: Nicki Kennedy, soprano;
Abra: Alessandra Rossi, soprano; Ozias: Rowena Anketell,
mezzo-soprano.
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| Vivaldi. Juditha Triumphans. RSTI
Multimedia (2 CDs 2001). Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti, Coro
della Radio svizzera. Juditha: Sara Mingardo, mezzo-soprano;
Holofernes: Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano; Vagaus: Roberta
Invernizzi, soprano; Abra: Manuela Custer, soprano; Ozias:
Tiziana Pizzi, mezzo-soprano.
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| Vivaldi. La Senna Festeggiante. Opus 111
OPS 30-339 (1 CD 2002). Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano.
L'Età dell'Oro: Juanita Lascarro, soprano; La Senna: Nicola
Ulivieri, bass; La Virtù: Sonia Prina, contralto. Total time:
72'41.
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| Vivaldi. La Senna Festeggiante. Accord
206172 (2 CDs 1997), reissued on 476054-2 (2003). Martin Gester,
Le Parlement de Musique. L'Età dell'Oro: Delphine Collot; La
Virtù: Katalin Károlyi; La Senna: Stephan MacLeod. Bright and
pleasant, and a great advance over the old Scimone set. Time:
84'23.
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| Vivaldi. La Senna Festeggiante / Gloria e
Imeneo. Hyperion CDA 67361/2 (2 CDs, November 2002). Robert
King, The King's Consort. Carolyn Sampson, Hilary Summers, Tuva
Semmingsen, Charles Daniels, Andrew Foster. A "strum along"
performance, marred by the almost constant strumming guitar.
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Recommended Recordings
See the NewOlde.com
Vivaldi Operas page for opera recordings.
| Antonio Vivaldi. Opera Arias and Sinfonias.
Hyperion CDA 66745. Emma Kirkby. Roy Goodman, The
Brandenburg Consort.
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| Antonio Vivaldi. Gloria, Nulla in mundo pax
sincera, Nisi dominus, Cantatas. Decca (2 CDs). This reissue
includes Emma Kirkby's stellar performance of "Nulla in mundo
pax sincera", first released on the flip side of the Gloria in
1978.
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| Antonio Vivaldi. Sacred Music, volume 2.
Hyperion CDA 66779. Deborah York, Catherine Denley, James
Bowman. Robert King, The King's Consort. Motets.
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| Vivaldi. Gloria e Imeneo. Ligia Digital
Lidi 0202016-94 (1 CD 1994). Jean Estournet, Ensemble Jean-Marie
Leclair. Gloria: Jean Nirouët, countertenor; Imeneo: Robert
Expert, countertenor. Sinfonias added at the beginning and end.
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Vivaldi. Gloria e Imeneo. Dynamic CDS
125 (1 CD 1994). Carlos Gubert, Accademia Bach Baroque
Orchestra. Gloria: Eva Lax, mezzosoprano; Imeneo: Paola Rossi,
contralto.
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Reissued 2005:
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| Vivaldi, Musica Sacra Vol 1: Stabat
Mater RV 621, Clarae stellae, scintillate RV 625 & concertos RV
556, 544a, 579 & sonata RV 130. Opus 111. OPS 30-261 (1999).
Sara Mingardo, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano.
Another brilliant performance by Sara Mingardo.
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Books
| Michael Talbot. The Chamber Cantatas of
Antonio Vivaldi. Favorably reviewed by Clifford Bartlett in
Early Music Review 112: 21-22 (April 2006). 234 pages.
The Boydell Press 2006.
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| Michael Talbot & Federico Maria Sardelli.
Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder. Ashgate 2006.
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| Eric Cross. The Late Operas of Antonio
Vivaldi, 1727-1738. 2 volumes. I: 277 pages. II: 320 pages.
UMI Research Press, 1981. 326 pages. I: ISBN 0835711854; II:
ISBN 0835711587. Appendix I: Work List with dates, places,
librettists, casts & sources. Appendix II: Borrowings. Volume II
consists entirely of musical examples, including incipits for
each movement in the Turin scores.
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| Reinhard Strohm. Dramma per Musica: Italian
Opera Seria of the Eighteenth Century.
Details. Yale University Press, 1997. 326 pages. The
author's second collection of his articles about 18th Century
serious opera. Contents include: Apostolo Zeno's Teuzzonne
and its French models; Antonio Vivaldi's setting of Teuzzone:
dramatic speech and musical image.
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| Nigel Fortune (ed.) Music and Theatre:
Essays in honour of Winton Dean. Cambridge University Press,
1987. 389 pages. Contents include: Vivaldi and Handel's settings
of Giustino, by Reinhard Strohm.
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| Iain Fenlon & Tim Carter (eds.) Con Che
Soavità: Studies in Italian Opera, Song and Dance, 1580-1740.
336 pages. Oxford University Press 1995. Contents include:
Vivaldi and the Pasticcio: Text and Music in Tamerlano,
by Eric Cross.
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| Michael Talbot. Venetian Music in the Age of
Vivaldi. 364 pages.
Ashgate 1999. Collection of articles by Talbot: Musical
academies in eighteenth-century Venice; Tenors and basses at the
Venetian Ospedali; Vivaldi and the empire; Vivaldi's Serenatas:
long cantatas or short operas?; Vivaldi's 'Manchester' sonatas;
Vivaldi's conch concerto; A Vivaldi sonata with obbligato organ
in Dresden; Lingua romana in bocca veneziana: Vivaldi, Corelli
and the Roman School; Vivaldi and Rome: observations and
hypotheses; Vivaldi's sacred music: the three periods; New light
on Vivaldi's Stabat Mater; The function and character of the
instrumental ritornello in the solo cantatas of Tomaso Albinoni
(1671-1751); Albinoni's oboe concertos; The effects of music:
Benedetto Marcello's cantata Il Timoteo; The Marcian motets of
Benedetto Vinaccesi; The Taiheg, the Pira and other curiosities
of Benedetto Vinaccesi's Suonate da camera a tre, Op. 1.
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| Michael Collins & Elise
K. Kirk (eds.) Opera and Vivaldi. University of Texas
Press, 1984. 398 pages. Contents include: Venetian Theaters
during Vivaldi's life, by William C. Holmes; Costume in the
Frescoes of Tiepolo and Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera, by
William L. Barcham; Opera Criticism and the Venetian Press, by
Eleanor Selfridge-Field; Voice Register as an Index of Age and
Status in Opera Seria, by Roger Covell; Cadential Structures and
Accompanimental Practices in Eighteenth-Century Italian
Recitative, by Michael Collins; Embellishing Eighteenth-Century
Arias: On Cadenzas, by Howard Mayer Brown; The Relationship
between Text and Music in the Operas of Vivaldi, by Eric Cross;
Vivaldi as Self-Borrower, by Klaus Kropfinger; Vivaldi's
Orlando: Sources and Contributing Factors, by John Walter
Hill; Preparing the Critical Edition: An Interview with Alan
Curtis, by Marita P. McClymonds; Grazio Braccioli's Orlando
furioso: A History and Synopsis of the Libretto, by Michael
Collins.
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| Reinhard Strohm. Essays on Handel and
Italian Opera. Collection of Strohm's essays, some published
in English for the first time. A book to which I return
repeatedly. Cambridge University Press, 1985. Rare & out of
print. Contents include: Vivaldi's career as an opera producer.
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