![]() Therefore, I was very curious when this new recording was released: Vivaldi: Gloria – Julia Lezhneva – Franco Fagioli – Diego Fasolis (Decca 2018) So far, this has been my preferred version, but I still feel more can be done. The same Gloria is still fast, but at 2:10 a bit less Mickey Mouse on speed than the first one. You’re much better of with his second recording featuring Sara Mingardo among his soloists. As much as I appreciate baroque music with a certain drive, this is just TOO fast. ![]() The poor strings barely get to follow this breathtaking speed. In his first version, he gets through the initial Gloria in Excelsis Deo in a breathtaking 1:55. Both versions have been released and re-released so many times that it is hard to distinguish them. With his ensemble “Concerto Italiano” he is one of the leading interpreters of HIP Vivaldi. ![]() Not so Willcocks, he was in a way HIP before it became a thing. Most baroque music from this time is heavy, slow and very far away from today’s standard of the historically informed practice, that I barely listen to it (Karl Richter’s b-minor mass being the occasional exception). The version I “grew up with” is the recording with David Willcocks and the King’s College Choir isn’t a bad starting point actually, in spite of it’s age, dating from the 1960s. So, if I like it that much, why didn’t I write about it earlier? Well, simply said, because I haven’t yet found my personal reference version. It may well be the most often performed Vivaldi Choral work. But in my personal opinion (which is shared by many music lovers), RV589 beats them all. RV589 is commonly known as “The” Vivaldi Gloria, but in fact there are others. (Well to be fair, it was mentioned here in this early post about what gives goose bumps to my readers). I haven’t written about my favorite Vivaldi piece of all times, the Gloria RV 589 yet. To correct my image as a Vivaldi-basher, I’ve already praised Rachel Podger’s recent release of the Four Seasons. ![]() I recently said that I’m not a particularly huge Vivaldi fan, which got some reactions from my readers defending his work. ![]()
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