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A landmark Tafelmusik recording, Vivaldi con amore is the orchestras first with Music Director Elisa Citterio. This all-Vivaldi album showcases Citterio and members of the orchestra in concertos for violin, oboe, bassoon, and lute, underlining the level of virtuosity across the ensemble. Elisa Citterio is featured as violin soloist in Vivaldis love-themed concertos L'amoroso and L'amato bene, while Tafelmusiks remarkable musiciansCristina Zacharias, Patricia Ahern, Geneviève Gilardeau, and Julia Wedman, violins; John Abberger and Marco Cera, oboes; Dominic Teresi, bassoon, and Lucas Harris, lute, are featured as soloists in the vibrant concertos that complete the program, which opens with the Sinfonia from Vivaldis opera Ottone in villa. In the collective imagination Vivaldi truly represents litalianità, or the Italian character. His music describes and evokes landscapes, states of mind, and characters in a very direct way. Vivaldis music speaks unambiguously to peoples hearts. Elisa Citterio