If there’s one thing that the pioneering Naïve Vivaldi Edition has taught us, it’s that the famously prolific composer had very few off days. Volume 73 in their magisterial survey of the Vivaldi works archived in Turin may be a byway – indeed, lacking a front page it doesn’t even have a proper title – but there’s a great deal of fine music here and much to enjoy in these lively performances from Abchordis Ensemble under conductor Andrea Buccarella.

The music stems from 1725 when Vivaldi was commissioned by the French ambassador to the Venetian Republic to write a serenata – a dramatic cantata, usually performed in the evening – to celebrate the wedding between Louis XV and the Polish princess Maria Leszczynska.

Named these days after the allegorical characters who take part in it, La Gloria e Imeneo is a series of nine arias and two duets offering increasingly extravagant wishes of joy and prosperity to the happy couple. The first three numbers are original, but then, as perhaps he was running out of time, Vivaldi begins a wide-ranging process of borrowing...