Variations on Vivaldi at H&H
Ian Watson at the keyboard in a previous Handel and Haydn performance.As the old joke goes, Vivaldi didn't write five hundred concertos, he just wrote one concerto five hundred times. Okay, okay, not entirely fair - but in a nutshell, that's the problem with many a program devoted to the oeuvre of the "Red Priest" (the red-headed Vivaldi's vivid nickname) who may have contributed more to this particular musical…