Juozas Rimas wrote:

>What can you say about Vivaldi's music? Like many, I know the Four Seasons
>and I like them.  However, after finding out Vivaldi has written the total
>of almost 50 concerti, 39 operas, 23 symphonies etc, I started to worry
>about the relation of quantity and quality.  Could you please assure me
>the seasons are his best work and I don't have to bother digging deeper?

Dig deeper.:)

There aren't very many Vivaldi opera recordings available, but I highly
recommend his concertos:  the remainder of the op.  8 collection from which
the "Four Seasons" is an extract, for example, or the concertos "con molto
strumenti" (forgive my bad Italian).  As for his choral works, the most
famous is his "Gloria" in D (he wrote several other Mass movements).  I'd
keeping sniffing around, trying out his popular, non-"Four Seasons" works,
then take it from there.

And isn't the number of concerti something more like 500?

Mark K. Ehlert