Michael Talbot

[T]here is nobody internationally as well-placed as Talbot to provide such a versatile and friendly guide to Vivaldi [...] The Vivaldi Compendium will become an indispensable companion — Gramophone Magazine More…

a very well balanced, closely researched "life and works" of Vivaldi — The Literary Review More…

There are welcome insights into...how and why [the cantatas] were written, and by whom and for whom they were performed...a work-by-work description of each cantata provides reference material... — Musical Times More…

Well-researched ... Well written and well produced, this book deserves a place on the shelves of musicologists, who ought to ponder Talbot's judicious balance between historical and analytical... — British Journal of Aesthetics More…