Home » Archive by Tags

Articles tagged with: Vivaldi

Riccardo Muti turns spotlight on CSO Chorus with lustrous account of Verdi ‘Sacred Pieces’

Jun 22, 2013 – 3:52 pm | 7,543 views
Mezzo-soprano-Alisa-Kolosova-with-the-Chicago-Sympohny-Orchestra-and-music-director-Riccardo-Muti-credit-Todd-Rosenberg.j

Review: Riccardo Muti, winding up his third season as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this weekend, led the orchestra and Chicago Symphony Chorus on a spiritual voyage Thursday night, from luminous Mozart and rapturous Vivaldi to a transcendental peak in Verdi’s glorious “Four Sacred Pieces.” Performances continue through Sunday. ★★★★★

Digital: ‘Four Seasons’ and Haydn symphonies flash style, finesse under McGegan’s baton

Apr 25, 2012 – 6:09 pm | 2,431 views
Philharmonia Baroque Vivaldi The Four Seasons jacket 300

CD Reviews: The latest evidence of the Philharmonia Baroque’s mastery of 18th century fare is a CD release of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” – plus three more violin concertos by the Red Priest, as Vivaldi was known – featuring the orchestra’s wizardly concertmaster and all-world Baroque star Elizabeth Blumenstock. ****