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Polverelli is an agile singer who negotiates Vivaldi's sometimes hazardous vocal lines with technical assurance and lively responses to the texts. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Aug 2005
Catalogue No: OP30381
Label: Naive
Series: Vivaldi Edition
Length: 60 minutes

Vivaldi: Concerto for Recorder, Oboe and 2 Violins in C major, RV 87

Work length8:09

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Astree, L'

I. Allegro

Track length3:18

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II. Largo

Track length2:24

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III. Allegro assai

Track length2:27

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Vivaldi: Cantata RV683 'Amor, hai vinto' for alto & strings

Work length13:24

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Laura Polverelli (mezzo-soprano)
Astree, L'

Recitative: Amor, hai vinto

Track length0:56

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Aria: Passo di pena in pena

Track length5:45

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Recitative: In che strano e confuso

Track length1:31

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Aria: Se a me rivolge il ciglio

Track length5:12

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Vivaldi: Concerto RV98

Work length5:39

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Astree, L'

I. Allegro

Track length2:09

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II. Largo

Track length1:28

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III. Presto

Track length2:02

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Vivaldi: Cantata RV680 'Lungi dal vago'

Work length14:03

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Laura Polverelli (mezzo-soprano)
Astree, L'

Recit: Lungi dal vago volto

Track length1:51

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Aria: Augelletti, voi col canto

Track length6:59

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Recit: Allegrezza mio core

Track length0:52

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Aria: Mi stringerai si, si

Track length4:21

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Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, RV 103

Work length8:50

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Astree, L'

I. Allegro

Track length4:23

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II. Largo

Track length2:41

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III. Allegro

Track length1:46

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Vivaldi: Cantata RV682 'Vengo a voi luci adorate'

Work length10:11

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Laura Polverelli (mezzo-soprano)
Astree, L'

Aria: Vengo a voi, luci adorate

Track length5:38

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Recitative: Portando in sen l'ardor

Track length0:48

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Aria: Sempre penare

Track length3:45

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December 2005

Polverelli is an agile singer who negotiates Vivaldi's sometimes hazardous vocal lines with technical assurance and lively responses to the texts.

2010

Naïve's monumental Vivaldi series continues its sensible policy of mixing chamber cantatas and concertos in this third volume, in which Italian ensemble L'Astrée are joined by mezzosoprano Laura Polverelli. Polverelli proves an agile artist, as much she needs to be; Vivaldi, as is his wont, challenges her vocal athleticism with the kind of jagged melodic lines and rattling passagework that a kinder composer might have avoided, all in the cause of expressing what seem like the rather subtler shades of Arcadian love.
Happy to say, she triumphs. Despite having a voice whose operatic intensity, dark colouring and low centre of gravity sound at first as if they will be ill-suited to the angular music that Vivaldi- lovers will know lies ahead, when the time comes she negotiates the composer's treacherously scattered notes with languid ease. What is more, she brings a commanding sense of drama to the recitatives and uncommon dignity and moment to the arias. The cantatas themselves are worth the trouble: the two intertwining violins of Amor hai vinto ooze amorous disquiet; Lungi dal vago volto closes with a gleeful hoedown; and Vengo a voi, luci adorate sets out in a mood of modish galant but cannot escape its Vivaldian identity for long.
The instrumental support from L'Astrée is tightly solid throughout (save for a slightly acid violin in Lungi dal vago volto) and the three concertos are performed with imagination and spirit. Particularly enjoyable is RV107, where the omission of continuo leaves us with a charming (and in no way incomplete-sounding) trio of recorder, oboe and bassoon. A disc principally for Vivaldi specialists, perhaps, but newcomers who stumble across it will surely find plenty to entertain them too.

Vivaldi - Concerti & cantate da camera III

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