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Chances are excellent that Vivaldi, famed 18th century Italian master of the baroque, would be enjoying new popularity with or without Violinist Felix Ayo and fellow members of the Italian string orchestra called I Musici (The Musicians). But I Musici (pronounced "ee Moo-zee-chee") has surely contributed to the boom. And in the process it has attracted an international following that regards it as the best string orchestra in the world. This week the orchestra begins a three-month North American tour in Quebec. Day after day the musicians painstakingly rehearsed-paying the price, said a proud member...
Vivaldi: Concerti (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Five works for violins, cellos and strings by an Italian composer, the bulk of whose works remained unpublished until the late 19405. Since then, Vivaldi has been recognized as a topflight composer; he switches from gentle, birdlike flutterings to rough bearlike thumpings with masterful agility...
Bonporti: Concerti a Quattro (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Four of the ten polyphonic concertos, marked Opus n by a recently discovered Italian Jesuit philosopher whose lifelong ambition was not to compose music but to become canon at the Cathedral of Trento. Bonporti (1672-1749), who remained an ordinary priest and died brokenhearted, abandoned Corelli's standard concerto-grosso form, loaded his dialogues between violins, violas and bass with such a personal, rhythmic melody that he became a forerunner of 19th century romanticism...