Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music

In 1926, from a monastery just outside Turin in Italy, came a revelation as extraordinary for music as the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb: a crate of 300 Vivaldi manuscripts, including no fewer than 50 sacred works. This 11CD set offers jewels such as ‘Beatus vir’, a ‘Stabat mater’, a ‘Dixit Dominus’ and myriad other brilliant Baroque jewels ready to be discovered. This landmark set means there is no further excuse. The choir and soloists are a veritable ‘who’s who’ of Baroque performance both now and in the recent past – Joyce DiDonato, Charles Daniels, Nathalie Stutzmann, Carolyn Sampson, Robin Blaze, James Bowman, Susan Gritton, Sarah Connolly, Neal Davies and more. Expense was never spared.