Wes Crone wrote: >I did like them more than usual. I think I am just not a fan of the light >flaky music which I associate with Vivaldi. I don't mind light but I won't >stand for flaky. Maybe this is how I feel about Mozart and the reason I >just can't listen to his music either. Mozart had light and heavy pieces, and I can't imagine generalizing about his music as light and flaky (as seems implied but maybe I'm misreading). Do you play piano? Get a copy sometime of the Mozart symphonies for 4 hands -- it's a sure way to hear all the wonderful things that are happening, fascinating progressions, in the symphony #40 and others. Some orchestras have played him in such smoothed out fashion that he just seems light and pretty where he isn't. Granted, he wrote a lot of fluff as requested too. >I'll take some Henry Purcell or Marin Marais or Matthew Locke any day of >the week. Bottom line: I don't think you'll find anything from Vivaldi >that will interest you any more than the 4 seasons. Wrong bottom line - I have no liking for his 4 seasons though I might admire certain things about them. I just don't care to hear them. But I love other works of Vivaldi, and mainly some interesting works found by going into the library to find interesting works to play in a small group that loves to play. Andrys in Berkeley http://www.andrys.com/books.html Search sheet music, videos, CDs, books