Vivaldi airs

[Mozart]

What are your favorite vivaldis arias?

[Mozart]

Don't be shy...

[Expresso]

Don't be shy...

As a thread starter you are supposed to start 
I don't know many arias from Vivaldi yet... but from the ones i know i'll say "Domine Deus".

[Mozart]

Well I want to hear some but I don't know where to begin. I heard agitata da due venti and it was amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsZyY3Znig

[Que]

Well I want to hear some but I don't know where to begin. I heard agitata da due venti and it was amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsZyY3Znig

On the clip is Cecilia Bartoli singing, probably from this CD:


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This recording of "Griselda" has had some favourable press:


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Reviews:
http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=10568
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2006/11/vivaldi-edition-griselda.html

In French:
http://www.classicstodayfrance.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=1920
http://www.forumopera.com/critiques/griselda_spinosi060921.html
(critical of the musical interest of the opera)

German:
http://www.hr-online.de/website/rubriken/kultur/index.jsp?rubrik=9560&key=standard_document_27655944


I'm slowly discovering Vivaldi as an opera composer myself, and I think he was pretty good.
Check my earlier comments on "Orlando Furioso" on the old forum - I'll repost them on the current Vivaldi Recordings thread.

Q

[Mozart]

On the clip is Cecilia Bartoli singing, probably from this CD:

Strangely enough no! I was expecting it but it wasn't there. There is an aria that sounds like the 4 seasons spring though

I'm slowly discovering Vivaldi as an opera composer myself, and I think he was pretty good.
Check my earlier comments on "Orlando Furioso" on the old forum - I'll repost them on the current Vivaldi Recordings thread.

Cool, I'll check it out. I also love this "artsy" cd covers