Recording of November 2020: <I>What’s Next Vivaldi?</I>

What’s Next Vivaldi?

Antonio Vivaldi and others

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin; Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, cond. and flute.

Alpha 624 (Auditioned as 24/192 WAV). 2020. Jean-Daniel Noir, prod., edit., master.

Performance *****

Sonics ****

Forget almost everything you know about Vivaldi performance practice, authentic and otherwise, and shush all “shoulds.” Banish from your mind any thoughts that all Vivaldi sounds the same. Prepare your ears to hear Vivaldi as you’ve never heard him before.