Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music

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"The ultimate Vivaldi anthology, abundant in energy, rich with emotion, animation, and color" - Fanfare. This collection sheds light on Vivaldi's great diversity of styles and instrumentation. Many of the composer's earliest and final works appear to have been written with the all-female forces of the Pieta in mind. Other works dating from the `middle' period (which stretches from the mid-1720s to the early 1730s) are especially flamboyant and include the celebrated Dixit Dominus, RV594. This set reissues an authoritative, but long out-of-print, 11CD set in clamshell packaging. The recordings date between 1994 and 2002. An essay by Michael Talbot is offered in English, French and German, while sung texts are presented in their original Latin and English