The version I “grew up with” is the recording with David Willcocks and the King’s College Choir isn’t a bad starting point actually, in spite of it’s age, dating from the 1960s.
So, if I like it that much, why didn’t I write about it earlier? Well, simply said, because I haven’t yet found my personal reference version. It may well be the most often performed Vivaldi Choral work. But in my personal opinion (which is shared by many music lovers), RV589 beats them all. RV589 is commonly known as “The” Vivaldi Gloria, but in fact there are others. (Well to be fair, it was mentioned here in this early post about what gives goose bumps to my readers). I haven’t written about my favorite Vivaldi piece of all times, the Gloria RV 589 yet. To correct my image as a Vivaldi-basher, I’ve already praised Rachel Podger’s recent release of the Four Seasons. I recently said that I’m not a particularly huge Vivaldi fan, which got some reactions from my readers defending his work.
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