I like his music, but tend to have long spells between them.
Last year I heard his
Gloria - the famous one, you know what I mean? - live, and it was very enjoyable. I like how he blended the voices with the chamber ensemble, and he bought the text to life in an interesting way.
Then this year I heard a number of his concertos on a bill of Baroque and Classical composers. The one for two cellos was quite memorable, it was quite expressive, the slow movement actually made me think a bit of Elgar's. My review of that concert
HERE, which included another less travelled Vivaldi concerto, for two oboes.
Closer to now, I missed a few performances of the ubiquitous
Four Seasons, I haven't heard it live yet, I do want to do that at some stage (I'd rather do that than hear it on disc, it's that kind of work for me). A bit of heresy here maybe, but I think I like Raymond Fol's arrangement of it for jazz band better than the original, with the amazing Johnny Griffin on tenor saxophone, it was originally made in the late 1960's but reissued 10 years ago on the Jazz in Paris series on Gitanes/Universal which I got a whole heap of.
Now, I'm enjoying more of his concertos, esp. those for mandolin and guitar. His music is very bright and atmospheric - Canaletto's images of Venice instantly come to my mind - but yes it can get quite repetitive if I listen to too much of his music. He was one of the first tone poets and minimalists, apart from being a big innovator in the solo concerto genre...
