A historical record, admittedly perhaps exceeded but endearing!

Yes, it's true, there are better, more historically informed, instrumentally more beautiful, more dynamic, better recorded in these concertos for mandolin that Solisti Veneti Scimone, if one looks from the side of it Giardino armonico, or the great version Lislevand, or that wiser but no less beautiful Paul O'Dette.

And yet! This recording then released for the first time in 1980, was not for nothing one of the absolute best-selling Vivaldi until the 1980s First, Scimone and his musicians have truly out of closets these partitions (Vivaldi among the tops in terms of imagination, color, but also formal perfection). This disc thus allowed to hear them for the first time in several generations of music lovers.
Then nothing is here ashamed and if this interpretation is exceeded the "scientific" point of view by more recent it is not nothing wrong. And the talent of the performers here to read Vivaldi with the consciousness of zealous defenders, and infallible taste. Therefore, even exceeded these readings are still endearing and have actually not aged.

To go further in this interpretative vogue that marked an era is also available big box Concertos & Sonatas of Solisti Veneti, which include the flute concertos with Rampal and oboe concertos with Pierre Pierlot. Do not forget also the Orlando Furioso equally dated, yet captivating, and then Marilyn Horne, Victoria de Los Angeles, Niccola Zaccaria, no less!