There's a few live performances on youtube as well. Note: I don't have that specific recording. Undoubtedly this is the best recording of Vivaldis four seasons available. The opening of Winter is a good litmus test since this seems to vary the most between performances. Vivaldi: Four Seasons - Complete (Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi) 11 - Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante Brisk tempi, edgy performances. Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons). I suggest you sample each of the above if you can and see what you like the best. For me the recording with Iona Brown and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields under Neville Marriner is a classic. a red-hot finish with a new recording of Sorrells arrangement of Vivaldis La Folia (Madness). All too often, massive sales are gained through inoffensive blandness or cross-over compromises, but not here. Most people have a favourite that falls somewhere between these extremes. Chosen as 3 in the 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021. Whether a contributor to or reflection of the surging interest in Vivaldi, the 1989 CD by Nigel Kennedy and the English Chamber Orchestra (EMI) reportedly is the best-selling classical recording of all time. A good example of this is Itzhak Perlman and the London Philharmonic Orchestra or Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) and the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. The ensemble I Musici recorded The Four Seasons several times, the debut recording in 1955 with Felix Ayo a 1959 recording featuring Ayo again and subsequent recordings featuring Roberto Michelucci (1969), Pina Carmirelli (1982), Federico Agostini (1990), and Mariana Srbu (1995). Performances that are skeptical of the above approach and are quite happy to hear the music played with a modern orchestra and more nineteenth century approach to performance style. Tom Lee Music has proudly been supporting music making within the Greater Vancouver and Vancouver Island communities since 1969. Good examples of this are Rachel Podger (violin) with Brecon Baroque or Adrian Chandler (violin) with La Serenissima Nigel Kennedys 1989 recording of The Four Seasons with the English Chamber Orchestra sold over two million copies, becoming one of the best-selling classical. Performances that take into account the musicological research that has taken place over the past 50 years and aim to play the work as Vivaldi intended.
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