Artist : Rachel Podger (Violin) , Arte Dei Suonatori 
Title : Vivaldi - La Stravaganza
 
RELEASE DATE : 10. Sep. 2018
FORMAT : Vinyl / Gatefold
CAT NO : CNLR1712
DISC : 2
BARCODE : 8809300904085 

RECORDING INFORMATION 
Recorded : Church of the High Catholic Siminary in Gościkowo-Paradyż, Poland, Sep 2002 
Producer : Jonathan Freeman-Attwood 
Recording Engineer/Editing: C. Jared Sacks
 
• From the original DSD masters of Channel Classics.
• Direct metal mastering by Hans-Jörg Mauksch at Pauler Acoustics without any digital remastering or editing
• 180g audiophile virgin vinyl pressed by Pallas Group GmbH in Germany.
• First time ever on vinyl records.
• Supervised by Sir Jared Sacks of Channel Classics
 
The performances by Rachel Podger are crackling with vitality and executed with consistent brilliance as well as a kind of relish in virtuos-ity that catches the showy spirit, the self-conscious extravagance, of this particular set of works. There are plenty of movements here where her sheer digital dexterity is astonishing... but perhaps even more I enjoyed the exquisitely fine detail of some of the slow move-ments, for example No.8 in D minor... that one has a performance to leave you breathless. Another thing Podger is specially good at is the shaping of those numerous passages of Vivaldian sequences, which can be drearily predictable, but aren’t so here because she knows just how to control the rhythmic tension and time the climax and resolution with logic and force. I would certainly recommend this set as a fine example of a modern view of Baroque performance. - Gramophone