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"With the help of a really lifelike recording – the instruments truly seemed to be in my listening room – the music just leaps off the page. The quicker movements all dance, where older and heavier bands were apt to make them slog, while in the dialogues between instruments the phrases really answer each other. In slow movements, on the other hand, the music is made to speak. Once again, it is notable – especially in the Largo of RV87 – how much more romantic this music sounds played with freedom by a small original instruments group than it ever did with larger bands who were trying to put on baroque manners.
In the three cantatas, Laura Polverelli has a splendidly rich timbre, so much so that I almost took her for a contralto; but
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later Vivaldi sends her up to heights we don’t ask of contraltos and she ascends them with ease. Her lower notes are so splendidly rich that I wish there had been more of them....I rejoice in the sheer life of all these performances...the music is all magnificent, Vivaldi at his richest."
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Works on This Recording
2.
Amor hai vinto, RV 683 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Laura Polverelli (Mezzo Soprano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Astrée Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
4.
Lungi dal vago, RV 680 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Laura Polverelli (Mezzo Soprano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Astrée Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
6.
Vengo ŕ voi luci adorate, RV 682 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Laura Polverelli (Mezzo Soprano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Astrée Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
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