English suites and others no. 34

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Have another Malipiero retelling, this one his Vivaldiana. Although it doesn't always sound much more like Vivaldi than Fritz Kreisler's pseudo-Vivaldi violin concerto - in fact the opening bars sound rather like Henry Cowell - it's fun, especially the lively last movement (10.59).

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I'm setting an informal limit in this series of two items per composer, but I wouldn't leave you without a link to Malipiero's third and grandest resetting of old music, Gabrieliana.