The Vivaldi passionate life

Speaking of music, which I’ve been doing more of at home lately, I love Vivaldi.

I don’t recall when I first heard of Vivaldi, I just know that it’s been at LEAST since I had a CD player, which first happened in 1990.

I like and love much other “classical” but Vivaldi is my passion.

I don’t have a lot of it CD, but the ones I have I love, love, love, and want more, of course.

I had not been listening to my CD’s much though the past few years. Since I started to load my music onto the harddrive though, I realized that it can hold much of my good stuff. So I hunted up and down, in and out for all my CD’s that seem to have been scattered in a few room-moving-times.

I’ve turned up 2 CD’s of Vivaldi, one is The Four Seasons, which also has other V. Concertos on the disc, and the other is a disc of No. 1-7 of Op. 3. That’s over 2 1/2 hours of music altogether.

I’ve been playing them most of the time the last couple of days, and it’s ALL SUPER familiar to me … I used to play this stuff to death in the 90’s. 🙂

My collection has turned up way more Bach than Vivaldi, and I am ashamed of that. I love V. much more than B. Well, my two V. discs get played while B. discs just sit there. 🙂

I’ve read more and more the last week about composers and find that my exact thoughts on B vs. V are out there in other V. lovers. Cool.

I mean, Bach is good, but it’s not Vivaldi Greatness. Nothing does for you in Bach that Vivaldi can do. V. was a super ahead of himself guy, Bach was not that.

I love great passion, and Vivaldi has that. I am not a Musical Intellectual, whom are the ones that push Bach into Heights too high, as they do with the other supposed “great” composers.

The things that I’ve read are what fit in with who I am mostly that makes it interesting.

I see it as those that love Bach love him not for the music alone, but for the structure that’s been placed around his life and music. That is fitting with Sequential ness or ASL’s in learning style.

Where as Vivaldi evokes intuitive love of the music. Oh yes, that’s the truth, as it is just emotions and pictures and feelings that entwine in one that is VSL. It’s emotional stuff that speaks to the Right brain, the side that is VSL. It’s more pleasing to hear Right Brain stuff than Left Brain stuff.

Vivaldi is Right Brain. Bach is more left brain that right-brain.

It’s not that Vivaldi is happy music. It’s passion and romance, it’s truth, life, under being down and up and down and up, up, up. It’s grand and not just happy stuff. It’s full of everything.

One of my favorites, to drop a name, is what is called “Winter” from the Four Seasons. Concerto for Violin in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4 RV 297 —

Secondly it’s “Summer” — Concerto for Violin in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2 RV 315 —

I like the whole 4 parts, but those two in particular.

So what else do I like? Of course, Tchaikovsky, and Dvorak. I love Cello concertos in particular. All the Vivaldi I have is Violin Concertos, and I love that too. I love the slow passion-ish-ness of most Cello concertos by decent composers.

I actually have a 2-CD J.S. Bach Cello Suiten by Cellist MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH set. I have NEVER listened to it. That says volumes about my like of B. vs. V. with the fact thrown in about my love of the Cello sound.

A big player here has also been Handel’s Messiah, The English Concert & Choir, Trevor Pinnock, from 1988, on authentic instruments. It, like much Bach, has appeal based on Christian themes … something that most of Bach’s is. Something that some of Vivaldis’ is, but not all.

So then the next Bach to talk of is Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, which I play occasionally, it’s a double CD from the Weihnachtsoratorium with Nikolaus Harnoncourt 1972/73. It’s for my very German feeling times. 🙂

I get that due to having German heritage. I also get English feeling times similarly. Italian? None in my blood that I know of. The music is though. Vivaldi was known throughout the world in his lifetime. Bach was not.

Bach was made a great name after his death, due to that country he lived in. Poor Vivaldi didn’t have such, but we have the privilege of having him become known and loved in our lifetime. So many years after he died. Just in my mother’s early days was his music found stashed away.

So with this post, and my earlier one about “Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis” I will launch my MUSIC section, but not as it’s own section, just a category here on this weblog. I have plans in store for changing how the MUSIC category will display, and how the front page displays stuff as well.

This music category will have info on lots of things as I find them. Maybe it will be separated out, I thought of putting it in my homeschool blog, but it more deserves it’s own section, so I’m going to play with it and see if it works to keep it in this blog, and separate things via coding categories differently, and others here too.