Antonio Vivaldi: Shades of Red <BR> BRIDGE 9173ClassicsToday. com 10 10 "Highest Rating" Hold onto your hats for a blizzard of virtuoso Vivaldi! Baroque ensemble REBEL with recorder soloist Matthias Maute give stylish, high octane readings of some of Vivaldis most beloved pieces. Included on this disc are the popular and raucous Concerto alla Rustica, the stunningly colorful Sonata on La Follia, and four of Vivaldis exuberant recorder concerti, played brilliantly by recorder soloist Mathias Maute.

Viola Sonata (1919)

with both artists playing off each other with inspired spontaneity

Piano Concerto No

4 Sonata was more youthfully romantic than the sort of music Hindemith was producing by the time he himself premièred this sonata in 1919

High Fidelity: Critic’s Choice

The program consists of three of the great masterpieces from the violin repertoire- Beethoven's "Spring Sonata"

" Frank Glazer's warmly embracing performances bring back an era long past

and Shulman composed "Rendezvous with Benny"

fugal sections

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The inclusion of his works for the concertina and guitar on the same disc is welcome

Concerto in D major