Word: vivaldi
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...elaborate and instructive violin lesson, Ruggiero Ricci collected $750,000 worth of great instruments, including six Stradivarii and five Guarnerii. To show their differences, Ricci plays on each the same short phrase from Bruch. To bring out their beauty, he plays on each a different short piece (Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Paganini, Handel, Brahms). "The more output and resource an instrument has," Ricci says, "the more difficult it is to handle." He proves that he can handle them all, but like Heifetz and Stern, he favors the Guarnerii, capable of more bite and passion than the more fluid and poetic Strads, which...
...Weimar Bach found an artistic guide in the music of Vivaldi. For nine years he studiously copied Vivaldi violin concertos and arranged them for organ and clavier. He also wrote fugues based on themes by lesser Italian composers-Corelli, Legrenzi, Albinoni-and gained a fresh sense of line-the ability to say large things with an economy and clarity that his baroque predecessors had never been able to achieve...
Cast Iron & Silver. Bored with string quartets and big orchestras, Barshai set out to build an 18th century chamber orchestra that he hoped would do justice to the "more profound" composers-Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Mozart. He found plenty of recruits eager to put up with his tough discipline. To achieve its tight togetherness, the group practices six days a week, eleven months a year. And the work is all the tougher because Barshai insists that all the instruments (save the harpsichord and cellos) be played from a standing position, just as in Bach...
...Yorkers have seldom been offered music of such sustained seriousness even in the dead of winter. The programs ranged from La Clemenza di Tito (The Mercy of Titus), a rarely performed opera composed in the last year of Mozart's life, to concerti grossi by Handel, Vivaldi and Samuel Barber, to Bach's B Minor Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Skep tics said tickets would go begging. In stead, knowledgeable audiences have kept Philharmonic Hall practically full. The programs' appeal, says Festival Administrator Jay Hoffman, is to the "ba-roquenik - a music lover with...
...Vivaldi: Gloria (Roger Wagner Chorale; Angel) is a rendition of Vivaldi at his festive best. The choir gets a bit thick at times, but the soloists are excellent and the recording is rich and sonorous...