A new Vivaldi Piece and Other Discoveries

Antonio Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus RV 807. Baldassare Galuppi: Laetatus sum, Nisi Dominus, Lauda Jerusalem. Roberta Invernizzi and Lucia Cirillo (soprano I and II), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Paul Agnew and Thomas Cooley (tenor I and II), Sergio Foresti and Georg Zeppenfeld (bass I and II). Körnerscher Sing-Verein Dresden, Dresdner Instrumental-Concert. Peter Kopp, conductor. Producer: Marita Prohmann; balance engineers: Daniel Schleef, Andrew Wedman. One compact disc DDD 68:28 minutes, recorded 1/2006, Lukaskirche Dresden, Archiv Produktion 00289 477 6145 AH

The discovery of a new work by a well-known composer inevitably causes some sensation. Two prominent instances from recent years are G.F. Handel’s Gloria and the aria Alles mit Gott by J.S. Bach, BWV 1127. It so happens that once again there is a discovery of a composition by a composer from the same generation. The present recording is of a newly discovered piece by Antonio Vivaldi: a setting of the Dixit Dominus, which was given the work catalogue number RV 807.

The booklet notes by renowned baroque music scholar Michael Talbot give a vivid report of this discovery: during the 1750s or 60s, the Dresden court acquired a great deal of sacred vocal music by the then fashionable Italian composer Baldassare Galuppi. However, the Venetian copyist Don Giuseppe Baldan, from whom the copies were ordered, also included at least four compositions…

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