Since they are Baroque concertos for solo violin, strings, and continuo, Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons are most frequently played today with an acute awareness of period practice, and since the 1980s, recordings of performances in authentic style have proliferated. However, in the early '70s, when violinist Michel Schwalbé and conductor Herbert von Karajan recorded these perennial favorites with the Berlin Philharmonic, there was still a preference among musicians and listeners alike for the fuller and richer sound a ...
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Since they are Baroque concertos for solo violin, strings, and continuo, Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons are most frequently played today with an acute awareness of period practice, and since the 1980s, recordings of performances in authentic style have proliferated. However, in the early '70s, when violinist Michel Schwalbé and conductor Herbert von Karajan recorded these perennial favorites with the Berlin Philharmonic, there was still a preference among musicians and listeners alike for the fuller and richer sound a modern string orchestra could provide, and the dominant way to play Vivaldi was straightforward and almost completely unadorned, without any of the embellishments or stylistic refinements brought about by early music scholarship. Therefore, this album of the Four Seasons, packaged with performances of the so-called Albinoni Adagio by Remo Giazotto and the Christmas Concerto of Arcangelo Corelli, will appeal to listeners who grew up with romanticized string sonorities and a liking for...
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