Music: Vivaldi
Some time ago, in a BBC TV programme about the "Red Priest" Antonio Vivaldi, they featured an all-female choir (including female bass) who were performing his works in the style in which they were probably originally performed at the Ospedale della Pietà (some scholars have suggested that men were 'imported', but other records show that women took even the male parts and one in particular is referred to as being a bass).
I can't find the reference to the choir, though, and I'm wondering if anyone knows of them or other all-female choirs who perform (and record) Vivaldi's works of the period.
(I was listening to the 'Gloria' RV 589 the other day on BBC Radio 3, sung as usual by a mixed choir, and thought of this...)
I can't find the reference to the choir, though, and I'm wondering if anyone knows of them or other all-female choirs who perform (and record) Vivaldi's works of the period.
(I was listening to the 'Gloria' RV 589 the other day on BBC Radio 3, sung as usual by a mixed choir, and thought of this...)