![]() ![]() See More Your browser does not support the audio element. Includes the FULL CHAMBER CHOIR version for the full sound and, to aid learning, a separate track with your own voice part LOUDER than the other parts. ![]() The listener has many choices when it comes to recordings of these works, but it's hard to imagine these, the Bach especially, being substantially outdone. Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian composer, violinist and teacher in the Baroque era. The Vivaldi is sunny rather than triumphal, with the choir a bit reined in and rounded in tone in the famous opening "Gloria," but all the solos are top-notch, with the "Laudamus te" soprano duet of Lynda Russell and Gillian Fisher an especially lilting standout. The Magnificat is really superior in the choral sections, with superb articulation of Bach's difficult interlocking runs of sixteenth notes the building energy of the final three choruses is marvelously rendered, and the opening "Magnificat" is expansive and rich. There are also new performances that give new modern perspectives to old music. But here, as usual, Christophers, the Sixteen, and the Symphony of Harmony & Invention Baroque orchestra play it straight up the middle and create accessible, appealing recordings using historical instruments. The best sonic quality the most heart-felt performance the performance considered closest to the composer's intentions the recording that uses instruments and settings closest to those of the composer's time. There are recordings that give Vivaldi in general and the Gloria in particular more of an edge there are recordings of Bach that seem warmer, or more rooted in the sacred texts. The tenor of the performances flows from the conceptions of each work that Christophers expresses in one of the little personal essays that appears at the beginning of each booklet in this series: Vivaldi, he said, is "effective," and even operates in places here "at his simplest," while Bach is "complex." Some would use other words first, for each composer - daring or kinetic for Vivaldi, devotional or a dozen other words for Bach. Here they couple two of the most popular Baroque works of all, Vivaldi's Gloria in D major, RV 589, and Bach's Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, and the results are handsome indeed. ![]() The small British chorus called the Sixteen and director Harry Christophers have delivered consistently popular recordings of Renaissance and Baroque music, maintaining very high standards of performance. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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