The Gloria’s international reach was extended with help from conductor André Jouve’s pioneering recording, made in Paris in 1954, and David Willcocks’s best-selling album, set down in the chapel of Choir of King’s College, Cambridge in 1966, before finding favour with period-instrument performers in search of bankable record releases. It became established as the Vivaldi Gloria (despite the survival of an equally fine setting of the same text by the composer) following the post-war distribution of Casella’s 1941 edition. It was performed in company with Vivaldi’s Stabat mater under the direction of Alfredo Casella during his Vivaldi Week in Siena, a combination that introduced audiences already familiar with his instrumental concertos to the fact that the composer, an ordained priest, also wrote sacred music.
The work’s modern revival began in Mussolini’s Italy soon after the outbreak of the Second World War in the autumn of 1939.
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