Diego Fasolis reviews
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Vivaldi: Gloria in D; Nisi Dominus; Nulla in mundo pax sincera
Diego Fasolis injects 'vitality' and 'melodrama' into Dorilla in Tempe by Vivaldi
After a modest pause The Vivaldi Edition has resumed activity with the composer’s heroic pastoral Dorilla in Tempe. Vivaldi produced it in Venice for the 1726-27 autumn carnival season, and revived it on three occasions over the following eight years. The work is a pasticcio with eight arias by other composers including Hasse who contributed three of them.
Martha Argerich & Friends with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides – and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of its phenomenal precision and brilliance; it’s a rare pleasure to hear her playing solo in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, which she has never before committed to disc. In every shared track she induces her ‘friends’ – including the excellent Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana – to raise their game to a level with hers.