With the furor attendant to the multi-lateral attribution of the newly recorded pasticcio opera Andromeda Liberata, there is still a very fine and tasty all-genuine Antonio Vivaldi disc that may well get lost in the shuffle, namely Patrizia Ciofi's Virgin Veritas disc of Vivaldi's Motets with Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi. A motet was not the same thing to Vivaldi as it was to Josquin; in Vivaldi's time it had metamorphosed from a type of sacred choral piece into a work for solo voice based on a non-liturgical sacred ...
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With the furor attendant to the multi-lateral attribution of the newly recorded pasticcio opera Andromeda Liberata, there is still a very fine and tasty all-genuine Antonio Vivaldi disc that may well get lost in the shuffle, namely Patrizia Ciofi's Virgin Veritas disc of Vivaldi's Motets with Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi. A motet was not the same thing to Vivaldi as it was to Josquin; in Vivaldi's time it had metamorphosed from a type of sacred choral piece into a work for solo voice based on a non-liturgical sacred text, ending with an "Alleluia." The church was none too excited about this development, as the Latin in these texts was often badly written and sprinkled with rather secular and dubious purple phrases such as "Make me weep, my beloved Jesus, and my tears will kindle joy in my heart." Nevertheless, Vivaldi persisted in the practice because it afforded more variety in terms of text settings to accommodate his intense and dramatic musical style than the standard liturgical texts. In...
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Add this copy of Vivaldi: Motets to cart. $8.85, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by PID.
Add this copy of Vivaldi: Motets to cart. $10.35, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Virgin Veritas.
