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The Chamber Cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi. By Michael Talbot. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2006 [xiii, 234p. ISBN 1-84383-201-1. $80]. Tables, music examples, glossary, bibliography, indexes.
In the opening to his book-length study of the thirty-seven existing Vivaldi cantatas, Michael Talbot reminds us rightly that these pieces are the "least researched, least discussed, least performed, least familiar" (p. xi) in the composer's compositional output. For a composer who has experienced both a tremendous popular modern revival and whose instrumental music influenced contemporary composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, his vocal works (cantatas, serenatas, sacred ...