Gloria

The Resource Gloria
Label
Gloria
Statement of responsibility
Vivaldi
Creator
Contributor
Composer
Conductor
Subject
Genre
Language
lat
Summary
Twenty years after it was first released by Archiv in 1987, Trevor Pinnock and the English Consort's coupling of Vivaldi's Gloria and Scarlatti's Dixit Dominus still sounds new, vital, and even contemporary in this 2007 reissue. Pinnock's tempos are lively, his lines clean, his textures clear, and his rhythms crisp. The English Consort's playing is light, tight, suave, supple, and, when the piece calls for it, powerful. The Choir of the English Consort's singing is sensitive, strong, and excellently enunciated. Soprano Nancy Argenta is a standout among the singers, and the instrumental soloists, especially clarion trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins, are uniformly strong. Archiv's early digital sound was bright, deep, and detailed when it was first released, and because this is an un-remastered reissue of the same disc, it remains the same. If you want to hear a coupling of Vivaldi's Gloria and Scarlatti's Dixit Dominus, Pinnock's was then and remains now a fine first choice
Accompanying matter
technical information on music
Cataloging source
VaAlASP
Date of event
2001
Form of composition
multiple forms
Format of music
not applicable
Language note
Sung in Latin
Other event information
  • Performed
  • Recorded
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  • mixed chorus
  • chamber orchestra
PerformerNote
Choir of King's College, Cambridge ; Academy of Ancient Music ; Stephen Cleobury, conductor
Place of event
  • King's College Chapel
  • Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Series statement
EMI classics

Context

Context of Gloria

Work of

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