In the early twenty-first century, there has been an emerging trend; major labels identifying large cycles from within their classical catalog and issuing a cut-rate box set encompassing them in their entirety. Some critics see this as a negative trend, devaluating the classical catalog, but it makes sound commercial sense -- most of these older recordings paid for themselves long ago, and most folks love to receive box sets as gifts, even if they never listen to any more than a fraction of what's inside. Claudio Scimone ...
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In the early twenty-first century, there has been an emerging trend; major labels identifying large cycles from within their classical catalog and issuing a cut-rate box set encompassing them in their entirety. Some critics see this as a negative trend, devaluating the classical catalog, but it makes sound commercial sense -- most of these older recordings paid for themselves long ago, and most folks love to receive box sets as gifts, even if they never listen to any more than a fraction of what's inside. Claudio Scimone and his ensemble I Solisti Veneti were among the first groups to heavily invest in the output of Vivaldi for purposes of recording. Warner Classics' Vivaldi: Concertos & Sonatas, Opp. 1-12, collects together all but one of I Solisti Veneti's recordings of Vivaldi's 12 published opera plus Chédeville's Il pastor fido, once proffered as Vivaldi's "Op. 13," and the Six Cellos Sonatas once thought his "Op. 14" in a single, 18-CD box set that retails for a little less than 100 dollars....
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