Sunday surprise — Glorious Vivaldi
[ by Charles Cameron — sacred choral music is, it seems, my heart realm ]
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I can’t help it if this tweet today:
Lovely nuns in this 15thc book of hours.
Montbrison, Musée d'Allard, ms. C, f. 064 pic.twitter.com/OAEb4U1sBq
— Emily Steiner (@PiersatPenn) October 2, 2016
reminds me of this image:
of an English woman’s choir visiting Venice to sing Vivaldi where Vivaldi himself taught and conducted the choir at the women’s Ospedale della Pietà orphanage..
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The BBC documentary of the journey is currently available for viewing here — and here’s the women’s choir, the Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi, singing Vivaldi’s complete and glorious Gloria RV 589:
For Sara Mingardo singing the same Gloria, see Sunday surprise — two women walking.
