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Vivaldi: Six Violin Concertos for Anna Maria [Hybrid SACD]

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Who knew Vivaldi could be this unimaginative? Oh nevermind, the concertos on this recording were missing all their parts except for the main violin lines and therefore had to be largely reconstructed. This immense task was done by this recording's violinist or conductor (I forget by whom because I gave away this CD months ago). Unfortunately the reconstructions are depressingly dull and sound as if written by a musicologist rather than a composer. Yes Vivaldi wrote so much that some of his pieces might sound too similar; but one thing that Vivaldi's music exudes is vitality ... vitality that is sorely missing from these reconstructions.

The composer Vivaldi is always synonymous with the four seasons and nothing else.But this perspective in my opinion is no longer valid. After the 1920, the discovery of his prolific music came to light and a large corpus of instrumental, vocal and sacred music was at last examined and observed. Now we have these gems of music on CD's and available to us, to listen and enjoy. By buying this cd,thanks to cpo, I added my Vivald's music collection. I am a Vivaldi hunter and I am trying to enjoy all his music