Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (vinyl) 180 g

Guglielmo, Federico, L'Arte Dell'Arco

CPO 777759

The LP continues to survive even today, defying adversity in all its forms. And not only that – it has achieved cult status and is celebrating a genuine comeback. What is more, music fans of all ages are rediscovering the LP record. cpo would now also like to release an LP offering a new sound experience and a new look. We have selected the recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in the Dresden version with additional winds currently in our catalogue on SACD. What? Vivaldi’s Four Seasons? Now what’s new about that? A lot – when the extraordinary violinist Federico Guglielmo and his L’Arte dell’Arco baroque ensemble join forces for such an extraordinary interpretive event. The idea behind it was this: Vivaldi wrote quite a bit of music for the Dresden court and its famous orchestra. Its wind instrumentalists were Europe’s best, so that the Concerti con molti strumenti – that is, for many solo instruments – were its specialty. For this orchestra Pisendel also arranged works originally written exclusively for strings. So why not the Four Seasons – tone paintings making them perfect choices for a more colorful instrumentation? Guglielmo’s »rewriting« was based on a musicological comparison of all the available concertos in which Vivaldi employed a full complement of solo wind instruments. The Spring, for example, is assigned recorders, oboes, horns, and a bassoon – and suddenly everything blossoms in much fuller instrumental color!

Vinyl x 1

CPO

8/20/12

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