This was originally the second LP in Vol. eight of Philips's Vivaldi Edition, a brick in that tercentennial edifice. At their most opaquely Romantic I Musici have rightly come in for plenty of criticism, but, if the ultra-purists remain obdurate, much of what they have done reflects the essential spirit of baroque music—vital, alert and crisp, and serious but without ponderousness nor sentimentality. Such performances (which include those on the present LP) have never been more acceptable than now, when the climate of opinion is more favourable to those who honour the spirit, if not entirely the letter, of the 'law'. In his enthusiastic review of the original issue NA got it exactly right. Not only is it a very recommendable LP but, six years later, there is still no other recording of RV523 or RV547, and only one other of RV271.'