Vivaldi's so-called motets, in this case more accurately described as solo cantatas, are gaining favor among singers with their mixture of vocal athleticism and fervent sacred texts. They are more operatic than Bach's cantatas, with a vocabulary of operatic effects deployed to illustrate religious ideas (ocean storms stand in for trials of the soul, for example). Each of the four motets here, although they come from different phases of the composer's career, features a pair of da capo arias, one fast and one slow, whose ...
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Vivaldi's so-called motets, in this case more accurately described as solo cantatas, are gaining favor among singers with their mixture of vocal athleticism and fervent sacred texts. They are more operatic than Bach's cantatas, with a vocabulary of operatic effects deployed to illustrate religious ideas (ocean storms stand in for trials of the soul, for example). Each of the four motets here, although they come from different phases of the composer's career, features a pair of da capo arias, one fast and one slow, whose dimensions would not seem out of place in an opera of the early eighteenth century, and all give soprano Simone Kermes room to work. Her voice is medium-sized, careful, and slightly piercing rather than sweet. She is at her best in the slower pieces, with the pastoral opening aria of "Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 630," a standout example of vocal control and tension matched by exquisite hovering effects from the Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon. In the big, high-speed...
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