Title: Excitedly Different
Review: I purchased this CD years ago (my version has a copyright of 2001) after listening to an earphone sample at Barnes and Noble and instantly recognizing how different and exciting this music was from other versions I owned and had heard. Reading the liner notes revealed that at least part of the difference was due to utilizing manuscript versions versus published versions. Of course, Biondi's skill, as that of the ensemble, is also noteworthy. When I played the CD for my then teenage children all 3 understood why I liked it so much and, at the time, only one was very interested in classical music because he played viola in the school orchestra. He has since gone on to guitar in a post-rock band but recently downloaded the CD onto his new Mac and burned a copy for his car. Whether this version is "historically" correct or even what Vivaldi intended doesn't matter. It is an amazing and exciting interpretation of some great music.
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