Four Seasons Archive
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Rachel Podger / Brecon Baroque—Channel Classics
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagione, concerti, Il grosso mogul, Il riposo, L’Amoroso. Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque—Channel Classics CCS SA 40318—76:00 [Distr. by Pias] ****: I’ve been following the historically-informed performance movement for most of my life, coming to collect recordings by Hogwood and Pinnock in the late 1980s as a teen. Rachel Podger came on the […]
* “The Argentinian Album” = PIAZZOLLA: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; GINASTERA: Concerto for Strings; GOLIJOV: Last Round – Amsterdam Sinfonietta/ Candia Thompson – Channel Classics
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Three important Argentinian composers, and works for strings in excellent surround.
VIVALDI: The Four Seasons – Janine Jansen, violin/ orchestra – DGG Pure Audio Blu-ray
Wonderful performance in better-than-the-CD sound—just. But is it worth the new investment without the surround sound if you have that?
“Basso Bailando” – PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; ROTA: Divertimento Concertanto for double bass & orch.; FALLA: Seite Canciones Populares Espanolas – Rick Stotijn, doublebass/ Malin Broman, v./ Lavinia Meijer, harp/ Swedish Radio Sym. Orch. – Channel Classics “Oblivion” – SCHOENFIELD: Café Music; PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; Oblivion; La Muerte del Angel; Libertango; TURINA: Circulo; ALBENIZ: Tango – Gelius Trio – Thorofon standard CD
Two fine tango/Spanish albums with just strings – no bandoneon.
“Basso Bailando” – PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; ROTA: Divertimento Concertanto for double bass & orch.; FALLA: Seite Canciones Populares Espanolas – Rick Stotijn, doublebass/ Malin Broman, v./ Lavinia Meijer, harp/ Swedish Radio Sym. Orch. – Channel Classics “Oblivion” – SCHOENFIELD: Café Music; PIAZZOLLA: The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires; Oblivion; La Muerte del Angel; Libertango; TURINA: Circulo; ALBENIZ: Tango – Gelius Trio – Thorofon standard CD
Two fine tango/Spanish albums with just strings – no bandoneon.
“Vivaldi Con Moto” = VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in E Minor; Violin Concerto in C Major; Concerto in D Major; Concerto in F Major; Concerto in E-flat Major; Concerto in D Minor – Giuliano Carmignola, v. /Accademia Bizantina /Ottavio Dantone – DGG
Ah, late Vivaldi. The Four Seasons is wonderful music, but these late concertos show that Vivaldi’s innovative tendencies continued till the end.
VIVALDI: The Four Seasons; ALEXSANDAR SEDLAR: Spring in Japan – Nemanja Radulovic, violin & leader/ The Devil's Trills – Artact
To his exciting Seasons, Radulovic has added a sobering new piece by his Serbian compatriot.
Güher & Süher Pekinel, Two Pianos Live in Concert – “Bach Jazz” (2001/2011)
It’s a pleasant surprise to find that the swinging-Bach jazz-style arrangements of the Jacques Loussier Trio fit so well with these hoary two and three-piano concertos.
VIVALDI: Gloria in D Major, RV 589; The Four Seasons, RV 269; 315; 294; 297 – Mimi Coertse/Ina Dressel/Sonja Draxler/ Julian Olevsky, violin/Vienna Opera Orchestra/Hermann Scherchen – Tahra
The old magician Scherchen renders two Vivaldi staples in luxuriant–even eccentric–colors that never cease to engage us.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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