This is an impressive disc…Gloria Banditelli is outstanding. Her tone is even across the entire range, and there is a warming vibrato that nourishes, without affecting its pitch-many a professional early music singer could learn a thing or two! The coro Canticum Novum is a well balanced ensemble with fine clarity from its sections. The soloists also blend well – there is non sense of competition between them, or the remotest hint of diva tendencies. All in all, in fact, this is possibly the best choral Vivaldi I have heard come out of Italy for a long time.
Recommended. (B.C.)