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RR 2014/153 The Vivaldi Compendium Michael Talbot The Boydell Press Woodbridge 2013 xii + 258 pp. ISBN 978 1 84383 819 7 £17.99 $29.95 Revised paperback reprint; first published in hardback 2011 (ISBN 978 1 84383 670 4 $90). Also available as an e-book.
Keywords Eighteenth-century, Music, Vivaldi
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-01-2014-0016
Comprising five sections - introduction, biography, dictionary, works and bibliography - this volume offers a thorough yet compact guide to one of the most popular of Baroque composers to emerge to fame somewhat belatedly, as a result of which a great deal of scholarship continues and uncovers new understanding about "the red priest" composer.
Michael Talbot's credentials as a leading music professor in the UK with considerable research experience of the work of Vivaldi combine with his...