Stormy passions: The Red Priest and his Muses

By Mark Pullinger, 08 February 2019

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“an entire aviary, from angry robin to trilling goldfinch”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 7 February 2019

Vivaldi, Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 156

Vivaldi, Motezuma, RV 723: Là, sull'eterna sponda

Vivaldi, Griselda, RV 718: Ho il cor già lacero

Vivaldi, Recorder Concerto in C major, RV 443

Vivaldi, Orlando furioso, RV 728: Sol da te, mio dolce amore

Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.11 no. 2, RV 277 "Il favorito"

Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in D major, RV 234 "L'inquietudine"

Vivaldi, Andromeda liberata: Sovente il sole

Vivaldi, Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727: Anderò, volerò, griderò

Vivaldi, Juditha triumphans, RV 644: Veni, me sequere fida

Vivaldi, Juditha triumphans, RV 644: Agitata infido flatu

Sonia Prina, Contralto

Alina Pogostkina, Violin

Dorothee Oberlinger, Recorder

Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca

Eine kleine Nachtmusik für Blockflöte beim Beethovenfest Bonn

Jens Klier, 15th September

Wirkte das Ensemble der Sonatori manchmal etwas zu verschlafen, wirbelte sich Dorothee Oberlinger lustvoll durch die musikalische Nacht.

***11

Vivaldi’s pasticcio Bajazet given an extravagant staging

Laura Servidei, 7th June

Federico Maria Sardelli leads a great cast of specialists in a new production by Fabio Ceresa, perfectly attuned to the Baroque style.

****1

Orlando furioso: Vivaldi returns to Venice in a Baroque feast

Laura Servidei, 23rd September

Fabio Ceresa's spectacular production to the Teatro Malibran with a strong cast in the hands of Diego Fasolis.

****1

Vivaldi's Farnace returns to Venice at the Teatro Malibran

Renato Verga, 2nd July

Christophe Gayral gives Vivaldi's Farnace a contemporary update at the Teatro Malibran, but there are musical compensations.

***11

La Fenice reopens its doors with Vivaldi's first opera

Renato Verga, 10th July

The lack of a curtain has forced the director to employ a new inventiveness, if only with partially success.

***11

A female voice florilegium: Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans in Paris

Laura Servidei, 11th February

A great performance of Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio, with Marie-Nicole Lemieux as the protagonist, under the baton of Jean-Chirstophe Spinosi.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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