Volume 68 of the Vivaldi Edition of Naïve, launched when the label was still called Opus 111, this CD brings together six Cantatas for soprano and basso continuo (RV 650, 652, 660, 665, 667 and 669), limited orchestral strength, led by the harpsichord by Andrea Buccarella, in which, alongside an organ, a cello and a bassoon, we find on the archlute Simone Vallerotonda, the architect of the CD “Meditation” presented here elsewhere. The CD is above all the meeting with a superb voice: Arianna Vendittelli, soprano with the perfect vocal placement, with a fleshy timbre just what is needed and which combines these qualities with a very just expressiveness, in anger as in sadness. This firmness and this mastery, as well as the vocal range, allow him to master the almost impossible initial recitative of ” sorghum vermiglia in the sky the bella Aurora (RV 667), even if our favorite cantatas are those where the subtlety of the accompaniment culminates (RV 652 and 660). It’s not Vivaldi at his most spectacular, but the disc is worth seeing.
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