ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741): L'incoronazione di Dario, RV 719.

Catalogue Number: 06P016
Label: Naïve
Reference: OP 30553
Format: CD
Price: $33.98
Description: Premiered in early January of 1717, this seemed like a retrograde move with its dense and complicated libretto, multiple characters, balance of comic and serious and long scenes of recitative in the era when the da capo aria was establishing itself but it was also a continuing station in Vivaldi's brilliance at orchestration and pointing of dramatic and psychological detail in music which relentlessly moves forward at an almost breathless pace. 3 CDs for the price of 2. Italian-English libretto. Anders Dahlin (tenor), Sara Mingardo, Delphine Galou (mezzos), Roberta Mameli (soprano), Riccardo Novaro (baritone), Accademia Bizantina; Ottavio Dantone.