Two questions present themselves to the hearer of this disc by Quebec's Ensemble Caprice. The disc juxtaposes tunes from a collection of Gypsy music collected in 1730 in Uhrovska, in what is now Slovakia, with a group of Vivaldi concertos, and the booklet further asserts not only musical similarity but also influence from traveling Gypsy musicians on Vivaldi's colorful solo writing. The first question is whether the program works on its own merits, and here the answer is affirmative. Certainly the temporal proximity of the ...
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Two questions present themselves to the hearer of this disc by Quebec's Ensemble Caprice. The disc juxtaposes tunes from a collection of Gypsy music collected in 1730 in Uhrovska, in what is now Slovakia, with a group of Vivaldi concertos, and the booklet further asserts not only musical similarity but also influence from traveling Gypsy musicians on Vivaldi's colorful solo writing. The first question is whether the program works on its own merits, and here the answer is affirmative. Certainly the temporal proximity of the Uhrovska collection and the height of Vivaldi's career is instructive, and it's easy enough to imagine an audience in one of the cities where Vivaldi worked -- which did include Vienna and other points east of his Venetian home -- hearing a band of Gypsy musicians in the streets before heading inside for music by Vivaldi. Recorder and flute players Matthias Maute (who is also the director) and Sophie Larivière have both dramatic flair and superb technical equipment, and Baroque...
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