Vivaldi/ Makhdoomi - Concerti? The Swiss recorder player Isaac Makhdoomi enchants his audience with his great virtuosity and stylistic versatility. Together with the Piccante Baroque Orchestra, which consists of early music specialists from the Basel music scene, he takes us on a fiery virtuoso sound journey to the Venice of the "Prete rosso" Antonio Vivaldi. Like hardly any other composer of his time, Vivaldi helped the recorder and it's variants to musical heights with his

including four flute concertos

His riffing isn't as complex here as it would be in the future

Since forming in Florida in 1994

It was in this version of 1878/1880

And I don't mean the new Blue Note

and drummer Byron Vannoy provide a comfortable

a way of life that is slowly fading but still lingers in the songs he sings

psychedelia and math-rock brimmed with brooding beauty

" reissue remains faithful to the original track listing

the atmosphere seems to glow in Beethoven's last sonata for piano and violoncello

Alongside the decorated production savant

and an idea of their reach across the two albums