The New York Times
Shared Madness
By James R. Oestreich
AT 1 MINUTE 55 SECONDS
More Vivaldi. Any time the composer’s display of mad fiddling — “La Follia,” featuring dueling violinists — comes along, I sit up and take notice. Jeannette Sorrell and her Cleveland-based early music band, Apollo’s Fire, ended their fine program of Baroque gems at Zankel Hall on Thursday with Ms. Sorrell’s own expansion of the Vivaldi work for full string orchestra. It preserves intricate interplay between the two soloists in a number of places but generally shares the wealth of virtuosity and abandon with the group’s other gifted violinists to thrilling effect.