![]() ![]() If you play it more 'baroquely' it can sound emotional and inspiring. Vivaldi's music is a framework for ornamentation and improvisation, if you play it slowly and blindly it will sound boring and repetitive. He's consistently underrated but that's because of the recentness of his music scholarship (he still has works being discovered only a few years ago) and he has only started to now get performances by specifically baroque music groups which understand the intent of his scores. Out of that selection you could pick about 30 really good, distinctive and individual concertos easily on a par with The Four Seasons and far superior to the hundreds of other concertos being written by his contemporaries. ![]() Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione Op 8 (of which the Four Seasons is a part)Ĭoncertos Per la solennità di S. The fact is there are some brilliant concertos amongst the 500 - its just knowing which ones they are! I am sure that if he had only written 20 or 30 concertos then he would, ironically, have been more accessible and those other works would have acquired the same popularity. One of the problems for the average listener is that after hearing the Four Seasons, it is hard to know what to pick out of the remaining 500 that is as good. This is very unfair, there is an immense amount of diversity in his work - but - if you listen to non-stop Vivaldi for a period of time you do start hearing certain ideas and motifs re-used a lot. He is frequently criticised for having "written the same concerto 500 times". However, I think it is fair criticism to say that he spread his creativity thinly. One of the problems with Vivaldi is he wrote so much! Over 500 concertos, 46 Operas, 90 sonatas - that is a lot of music. He may not have that plenty of compositions ![]()
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