An Aboslute Ideal Performance
08/19/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"If such a thing as absolute ideal exists when it comes to performance, Anner Bylsma achieves it with these recordings of Vivaldi sonatas. A pioneering period-instrument specialist, Bylsma not only easily manages the technical hurdles of the repertoire and instrument, he does so with unfailing grace. But the Dutch cellist also layers the music with color and expression, making a case for Vivaldi as a composer more concerned with emotion than many of his Baroque counterparts. The "Largo" of the Sonata No. 4, RV 45 soars like the best vocal music of any era, and the rapport among Bylsma and his colleagues is at its camber-music closest. -- Peter Dobrin"
A whole new world of beauty for Vivaldi 's Sonatas
Elpidio Mario D. Fonseca | 07/13/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
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A whole new world of beauty, only guessed in the version for harpsychord and violoncello, is fully revealed in this Bylsma's marvelous cd, with a second cello, a gamba and a lute, making the continuo"