Armida al campo d'Egitto (2010)

"Only the music of Acts I and III of Armida al campo d’Egitto (1718), both of them autograph, have been preserved. To present the surviving material Frédéric Delamea, author of an informative accompanying essay, and conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini have created a pasticcio to accommodate the surviving Act II text. Three of the original arias are known from other sources while the remainder has been lifted from other Vivaldi operas and gently adjusted to fit Armida’s libretto. Alessandrini himself has written the music for four short soldiers’ choruses – one of them, ‘Al solo folgare’, sounds decidedly un-Vivaldian – and for the recitatives. A fine three-movement Sinfonia sets the seal on a fascinating rehabilitation." (classical-music.com)