Tis Vivaldi's Birthday!!!

[sallymn]

... so let's have a piece I love in celebration :)



Concerto for violin, strings, and basso continuo in A minor, "L'estro Armonico"

Comments

[kaffy_r]

I love Baroque and Before music (that was the name of a wonderful program on a now sadly-defunct classical radio station in Chicago) and Vivaldi is part of that. So - Happy Birthday, Signore Vivaldi!! (Hmm. I need some "music" icons.)

Anyhow, also? Thank you for this!

[sallymn]

Me too - we still have the national classical music radio station, which our car is pretty much glued to :)

[kaffy_r]

Our car default is a jazz station, but there are times when I *need* Baroque and Before.

[sallymn]

One reason I so love youtube... there is just so much classical music, I find new stuff all the time.

[evelyn_b]

Oh, that's excellent! Thanks for posting it.

I know almost nothing about Vivaldi except that he belongs to the Wig Ages (I think?) but he made some good music.

[sallymn]

He has quite an interesting life story, was music master and composed many of his works for the girl's ensemble at a home for abandoned children he worked for...

[evelyn_b]

THAT'S SO SWEET, at least in my head. . . I guess I'd better take myself to Wikipedia to learn more.

[snailbones]

Happy Birthday Mr V!

He always makes me happy - you can't help but smile at all that enthusiasm for life, can you?

[sallymn]

Yep, as Sis says, his is happy music as well as brilliant :) My favourite is the Gloria, but I love a lot of his works...

[spikesgirl58]

And I missed it! Boo hiss!

For me, it's always The Four Seasons, but, honestly, I love it all.

[sallymn]

The Four Seasons is indeed wonderful, though I will admit, the Gloria wins out as my favourite...

[spikesgirl58]

That's a great one, too! :D

[vjezkova]

Thank you for both reminding us of Vivaldi´s birthday and for the music. Vivaldi´s name and his music go together well, don´t they?:-)

[sallymn]

They do, 'vivid' is definitely a good description :)