: (from the booklet of "the Vivaldi Album") "... "Siam navi all'onde algenti", written for the castrato Marianino Nicolini, is an example of Vivaldi's encounter with the poetry of Pietro Metastasio, the greatest 18th century writer of opera libretti. The opening recitative takes us into the Venetian composer's creative workshop. Indeed, Vivaldi's own interpretation of Metastasio's text is very personal, completely overturning that sense of a contemplation of human affairs present in the ...

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