vivace

Pair that with a vivace salad, with sliced strawberries, Bulgarian feta and a sprinkling of paprika, and you have my kind of balanced meal: something light and refreshing, something rich and rewarding, everything delicious.

Then, like Bizet’s allegro vivace finale, Pitchfix adds a nifty, gently curved notch at the top of the tool as its final flourish.

A spirited minuet and galloping vivace brought the audience to its feet for a standing ovation before Koopman led the orchestra in an encore, a repeat of Rameau’s “Rondeau.”

The second movement has a middle section usually played “prestissimo,” as fast as possible, when in fact Tchaikovsky wanted a less frenetic “allegro vivace.”

The “Molto Vivace” pas de deux, choreographed by Stephen Baynes, was far from molto vivace.