La Serenissima – review

Perth Concert HallJust how excited should we get when a lost Vivaldi manuscript turns up? Well, fairly. Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 600 times according to Dallapiccola, habitually irreverent but with something of a point. Much of Vivaldi's vast quantities of music can sound relatively alike, but this is no bad thing. He was an efficient gigging composer in an age when pieces were rarely performed twice.The lofty notion of the "masterwork" hadn't been invented, so it would be unfair to expe...

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