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L'estro armonico, Op. 3, in Full Score: 12 Concertos for Violins and String Orchestra, and: Le quattro stagioni = The Four Seasons (review)

2002; Music Library Association; Volume: 58; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/not.2002.0085

1534-150X

Simon McVeigh,

Music Technology and Sound Studies

For all the popularity of his concertos, and of L'estro armonico, op. 3, and Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), op. 8, nos. 1-4 in particular, Antonio Vivaldi has been ill-served in terms of reliable editions. The modern scholar-performer remains dependent for a broad conspectus on the old Ricordi editions edited by Gian Francesco Malipiero for the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi, versions that are often flawed but still widely used (and still available in miniature scores—op. 3 [pub. 1965] reprinted in two vols. in 1997 [PR 1231- 32] and The Four Seasons [pub. 1950] reprinted in 1983). The concerto has not been a priority among the more modern publications of the Istituto, although The Four Seasons has recently appeared in an authoritative critical edition by Michael Talbot and Paul Everett (Milan: Ricordi, 1996; pub. no. 137300). While whole tracts of Vivaldi's output remain inaccessible and largely unknown—numerous highly original and challenging bassoon and cello concertos, for example—these two new publications by Dover Publications and Bärenreiter of Vivaldi's most familiar works are nevertheless welcome in different ways. [End Page 924]