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Tutta sola October 2022

Rachel Podger, Channel Classics  Liner notes by Mark Seow

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CD liner notes for Channel Classics: Vivaldi  March 2018

Vivaldi Le Quatro Stagioni, Vivaldi Il Grosso Mogul, Vivaldi Il Riposo, Vivaldi L’amoroso Performed by Rachel Podger (violin) and Brecon Baroque: Marcin Swiatkiewicz (harpsichord and organ), Daniele Caminiti (theorbo), Johannes Pramsohler, Sabine Stoffer (violins), Jane Rogers (viola), Alison McGillivray (cello), Jan Spencer (double bass).

...Vivaldi’s avian landscape is constructed on more than mimesis. The whole ensemble unexpectedly drops out apart from the three violins. With the sudden lack of a ‘bottom’, our ears shoot ‘upwards’. In other words, the violinists aren’t pretending to be birds to us or to each other; instead, we the listeners have become birds and suddenly find ourselves in the treetops amongst others just like us. Vivaldi creates a soundworld in which the listeners move about…