"Laudamus Te" is very typical of Vivaldi's music with its intertwined imitative scale passages and melodic lines all of which go to make good music that gives us an idea of how skillful the young singers at the Ospedale della Pietà girls orphanage in Venice for whom Vivaldi wrote the piece must have been. It's a remarkably passionate duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano in which the singers contend (and I mean that literally, contests between sopranos were a very popular musical entertainment in Vivaldi’s time). There are echoes as well of a bourrée, a vigorous and lively type of gavotte that had come to Italy from France by 1681.
in, Saturday Chorale
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