To the time-honored categories of mainstream and historically informed performances of Baroque works we now must add a third. More and more often, performers who've become famous in traditional Classical-Romantic repertory are venturing not only into music of the Baroque, but also of Baroque bows, A-415 tunings, gut strings, ornamentation treatises, and all the other details with which modern players try to approximate a Baroque sound world. Even Yo-Yo Ma has hit the sales charts by teaming with Ton Koopman for a couple of ...
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To the time-honored categories of mainstream and historically informed performances of Baroque works we now must add a third. More and more often, performers who've become famous in traditional Classical-Romantic repertory are venturing not only into music of the Baroque, but also of Baroque bows, A-415 tunings, gut strings, ornamentation treatises, and all the other details with which modern players try to approximate a Baroque sound world. Even Yo-Yo Ma has hit the sales charts by teaming with Ton Koopman for a couple of volumes of Vivaldi's music, and now the adventurous Russian-born violinist Viktoria Mullova is out with a Vivaldi concerto disc of her own. Does Viktoria Mullova "get it"? The answer generally is yes. She passes the first test with Vivaldi, which is to realize that there's no reason to record the same handful of concertos over again; the Vivaldi catalog is full of marvels ready for wider exposure. Mullova offers five concertos here (for a rather parsimonious 53 minutes of music in...
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Add this copy of Vivaldi to cart. $12.19, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Onyx.
Add this copy of Viktoria Mullova-Vivaldi: Violin Concertos to cart. $12.42, good condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2005 by Onyx.
