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Vivaldi: L'Oracolo in Messenia / Julia Lehzneva, Vivica Genaux, Ann Hallenberg, Romina Basso. Biondi

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2012-10-09

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: L'Oracolo in Messenia, opera (mostly lost), RV 726
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Conductors: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Ensemble: Europa Galante

L'Oracolo in Messenia, an opera written by Vivaldi for Vienna in 1740, was reconstructed by Faio Biondi in 2011 in a triumphant open to the...continue...
Personnel: Nancy Glor (vocals).

Recording information: Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna (01/13/2012-01/15/2012)....continue...

Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione / Fabio Biondi

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2012-04-10

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for Violin in E flat major, Op. 8 no 5/RV 253 "La tempesta di mare"; Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 8 no ...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Conductors: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Ensemble: Europa Galante

Recording information: Studio de la Fondation Tibor Varga, Sion, Switzerland (2000-07-08_2000-07-11&2000-)....continue...

Vivaldi: 12 Concerti Op.4 'La Stravaganza' / Biondi

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2011-05-03

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin, strings & continuo in B flat major ("La stravaganza" no 1) Op. 4/1, RV; Concerto for Violin, strings & continuo in E minor ("La stravaganza" no 2) Op. 4/2, RV 27...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Conductors: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Ensemble: Europa Galante

No major ensemble today is more closely associated with the music of Vivaldi than Europa Galante under its dynamic violinist director, Fabio Biondi. In this...continue...
Recording information: Biblioteca de Monastero di San Giovanni Evangelista, Pa (12/17/2008-12/23/2008)....continue...

Vivaldi: Ercole Sul Termodonte / Biondi, Villazon

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2011-02-15

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Ercole, su'l Termodonte, opera in 3 acts (incomplete, but mostly extant), RV 710
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Conductors: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]

Cast:
Rolando Villazon (Ercole), Patrizia Ciofi (Orizia), Diana Damrau (Martesia), Joyce DiDonato (Ippolita), Vivica Genaux (Antiope), Topi Lehtipuu (Telemone), Philippe Jaroussky (Alceste),...continue...
Recording information: Saloncino del Teatro della Pergola, Firenze, Italy (01/02/2009-01/06/2009); Saloncino del Teatro della Pergola, Firenze, Italy (06/06/2010-06/07/2010); Saloncino del Teatro dell...continue...

Pyrotechnics - Vivaldi Opera

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-12-08

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Cantone in Utica, RV 705; Semiramide, RV 733; La fida ninfa, RV 714; Griselda, RV 718; Work(s); Ipermestra, RV 722; Farnace, RV 711G; Tito Manlio, RB 778; Rosmira fedele, RV 731
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Genaux, Vivica
Conductors: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]

This album of Vivaldi arias features numbers from a dozen or so operas and includes five arias receiving their first recording. It joins Genaux's existing...continue...
Recording information: Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma (12/17/2008-12/23/2008)....continue...

Vivaldi: Laudate Puieri, Motets, etc / Patrizia Ciofi, Fabio Biondi, et al

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Laudate Pueri Dominum (Psalm 112), for voice, strings & continuo in C minor, RV 600; Alleluia; In turbato mare irato, solo motet for voice, strings & continuo in G major, RV 627; O q...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Ciofi, Patrizia
Conductors:
Ensemble: Europa Galante

Bach: Cantatas 55 & 82a / Ian Bostridge, et al

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 82, "Ich habe genug" BWV 82; Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4; Cantata no 43, "Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen" BWV 43; Cantata no 55, "Ich armer Mensch, ich S&uum...
Performers: Abete, Antonio; Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Bostridge, Ian; Casazza, Enrico; Cavasanti, Lorenzo; Giua, Roberta
Conductors: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]

Boccherini: Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet for Strings / Fabio Biondi, L'Europa Galante, et al

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-03-10

Works: Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C minor, G. 355 (Op. 45/1); String Sextet in F minor, G. 457 (Op. 23/4); Quartet for Strings in C minor, G. 214 (Op. 41/1); Trio (T...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Marcocchi, Stefano; Naddeo, Maurizio

"This could be the best disc of Boccherini's chamber music ever recorded. Whereas most ensembles seem to hold to the idea that Boccherini was a...continue...

Vivaldi: Concerti per viola d'amore / Biondi, Europa Galante

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2007-11-06

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Viola d'Amore in D minor, RV 394; Viola d'Amore Concerto, for viola d'amore, strings & continuo in A major, RV 396; Concerto for Viola d'Amore in D major, RV 392; Concer...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Pinardi, Giangiacomo
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Ensemble: Europa Galante

For his new recording Fabio Biondi swaps his violin for the viola d'amore, and enriches his substantial Vivaldi discography with this complete program of concertos...continue...

Improvisata / Biondi, Europa Galante

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2007-05-08

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia ("Improvvisata"), for strings & continuo, RV 802; Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Symphony for 2 horns, 2 violins, viola & bass in G minor, J-C 57; Carlo Monza: Sinfonia "La t...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Europa Galante

Bondi and his Europa Galante return to the late 18th-century Italian Sinfonia. Of these Sinfonie con titoli, the best known is Boccherini's Casa del Diavolo....continue...

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2006-11-14

Works: Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Salve regina, for countertenor & strings in F minor (doubtful); Salve Regina in A minor
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Daniels, David; Roschmann, Dorothea
Conductors: Biondi, Fabio
Ensemble: Europa Galante

Virgin Classics is delighted to offer a new recording of Pergolesi's much loved 'Stabat Mater,' and the cast, featuring David Daniels, the emerging Dorothea Roschmann,...continue...

Vivaldi: Four Seasons, etc / Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2003-05-06

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for Violin, strings & continuo in E flat major ("La tempesta di mare"; "Il cimento"; Concerto for 2 violins, c...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Casazza, Enrico; Longo, Isabella; Naddeo, Maurizio; Negri, Raffaello
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Ensemble: Europa Galante

Vivaldi: Concerti per mandolini, etc /Biondi, Europa Galante

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2003-01-07

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto for Lute and 2 Violins in D major, RV 93; Concerto in C major, RV 558; Concerto for Violin, oboe, 2 recorders, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings & continuo in G minor, RV 57...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Europa Galante

"By now we know exactly what to expect from Fabio Biondi - the unexpected. Here we get all the stops and starts, swoops and darts,...continue...

Scarlatti: Concerti & Sinfonie / Biondi, Europa Galante

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2002-05-07

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: Clori, Dorino e Amore, serenata for 3 voices, chorus & instruments; Concerti grossi (6) ("VI Concertos in Seven Parts"); Sonata in A minor; Domenico Scarlatti: Sinfonia no 7 for...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Colitto, Lorenzo; Köll, Margret; Naddeo, Maurizio; Negri, Raffaello; Zejfart, Petr
Conductors: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Ensemble: Europa Galante

"Fabio Biondi has by now established himself and his Europa Galante group as not only one of the most exciting and imaginative of today's period-style...continue...

Vivaldi: L'estro armonico / Biondi, Europa Galante

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 1998-07-14

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: L'estro armonico, concertos (12) for 1-4 solo instruments, strings & continuo, Op. 3
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Europa Galante

"The Gramophone Database has seldom been without a decent recording of these ceaselessly fascinating concertos, though none begins to approach this new version in respect...continue...