Vivaldi / Biondi,Fabio L'Estro Armonico CD

Listening to these performances, I once again felt some of the thrill and excitement that affected me on hearing this music for the very first time. GramophoneRELEASE INFO: VERITAS X2 SERIES is the leading range of early music recordings on the market. This new batch of ten essential reissues introduces into the Veritas range, for the first time, key recordings from the historic Erato catalogue. Vivaldi's Op. 3 has been called the most influential collection of instrumental works to appear during the eighteenth century. This corpus made an enormous impression on European musical taste-even on Bach who transcribed six of them-and established the three-movement solo concerto as the norm. This 1998 recording by one of the most skilled period-instrument ensembles, Europa Galante, led by Fabio Biondi, remains a milestone reference recording.