By THIRSTY
In 1930, the Italian
National Library in Turin purchased a collection of autograph manuscripts by Venetian
composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), the most significant Italian composer of
the eighteenth century.
Known as the Foà and Giordano collection, this
assemblage of scores contains nearly 450 works by Vivaldi that includes
hundreds of concertos for various instruments, and vocal music for both the secular
and the sacred.
In 2000, French recording label Naïve began a
project with the Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Turin to record this collection
in its entirety. Thus far, sixty-one titles have been released, performed by many of today's most notable artists in historical performance.
Stay Thirsty Magazine is proud to present this
Special Section on the Vivaldi Edition because of its importance to the
preservation of music. In order to give a feel for the scope and the breadth of
this project, we sat down with Susan Orlando, the Artistic Director, and with
Italian Conductor Ottavio Dantone and the French Contralto Delphine Galou to
learn more about their views on this massive undertaking.
[NB: On October
4, 2019, Naïve Classiques announced the release of Concerti
per violoncello III, the 61st album in the Vivaldi Edition
series. This album marks the third installment in Christophe Coin’s project to record all of
Vivaldi’s cello concertos.]
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