- Audio CD (19 Dec 2008)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: PROPER
- ASIN: B000027OWU
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 101,967 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. The Four Seasons: Spring: Allegro |
| 2. The Four Seasons: Spring: Largo e pianissimo |
| 3. The Four Seasons: Spring: Danza pastorale. Allegro |
| 4. The Four Seasons: Summer: Allegro |
| 5. The Four Seasons: Summer: Adagio |
| 6. The Four Seasons: Summer: Tempo impetuoso d'Estate |
| 7. The Four Seasons: Autumn: Allegro |
| 8. The Four Seasons: Autumn: Adagio |
| 9. The Four Seasons: Autumn: La Caccia |
| 10. The Four Seasons: Winter: Allegro non molto |
| 11. The Four Seasons: Winter: Largo |
| 12. The Four Seasons: Winter: Allegro |
| 13. Concerto in C major, RV 171: Allegro |
| 14. Concerto in C major, RV 171: Largo |
| 15. Concerto in C major, RV 171: Allegro non molto |
| 16. Concerto Per Archi, 'Conca', RV 163: Allegro molto marcato |
| 17. Concerto Per Archi, 'Conca', RV 163: Andante |
| 18. Concerto Per Archi, 'Conca', RV 163: Allegro Molto |
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is the best interpretation of this classic baroque work. The way it is performed would be applauded by Antonio Vivaldi himself. I had not heard a reproduction of the Four Seasons with the energy displayed in this album. If you are to have one album of this work, this is the one... get it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Unique versions of some Vivaldi works, superbly performed by experts - Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante. Very, very good! This is a "must have"!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Played as written! And beautifully!
18 Oct 2000
Format:Audio CD
This recording absolutely lives up to its good reputation...and then some... and I was not the least bit disappointed-- nor did I expect to be. As for the crticism that this is somehow not played as Vivaldi wrote it: on the contrary. This is some of what the reviewer from Katy, Texas failed to include in his review, which is in the linear notes: " ...famous collection of concertos headed by Le quattro stagioni...published in Amsterdam at the end of 1725...At any rate, a version of Le quattro stagioni found its way at some point during the early 1720's into the collection of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740), the Roman patron of Corelli, Handel and a host of other composers. This version is slighly earlier than the published text and contains a few audible musical deviations...(the Ottoboni version) preserved in the Central Library, Manchester. Which means that Biondi went to the trouble of using the most authentic version available!! We are unlikely to get a more authentic version, or a better version anytime soon, if ever. Well worth the by no means exhorbitant, price, to say the least.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Primus inter pares
26 Nov 1999
Format:Audio CD
This is an excellent, convincing performance of Vivaldi's most famous cycle of concerti. it show what excitement comes from the combination of musicological knowledge with esprit. For comparison I recommend the (also highly popular) recording by Il Giardino Armonico, also very lively, also on period instruments (on Warner/Teldec)
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8 Oct 1999
Format:Audio CD
This disc IS the best thing to happen to Vivaldi and Baroque music in a long time !! Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante give an unsurpassed interpretation of the pieces. They breath a very intense passion into the music. And who better to play it than an Italian violinist and a group of Italian string players! They give the Four Seasons something I believe no one else can. BRAVO !!!!!!!!
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