Vivaldi: Double Concertos for Violin and Flute.(Isaac Stern, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Janos Rolla)

National Review | May 15, 1995| | Copyright

FOR SOME years there has been a great vogue for the Baroque, although some of the critical comment has resembled that wonderful M*A*S*H routine in which Radar sighs, "Ah, Bach!" Until Monteverdi, it was the accepted wisdom that music had reached its pinnacle, that it had become the ars perfecta, to be followed only by more of the same. Monteverdi created a revolution in technique, structure, and idiom. It is not stretching it to say he was the father of modern music, at a level perhaps with Beethoven, Berlioz, and Stravinsky. Before him was Palestrina, and after him Bach. Yet ...

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