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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons | 
 enlarge | Creators: Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico, Paolo Grazzi, Enrico Onofri
Label: Teldec
Category: Music
List Price: $10.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 41723
Format: Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 97671
UPC: 745099767129
EAN: 0745099767129
ASIN: B000000SPU
Release Date: October 25, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | 1. Allegro | | • | 2. Largo e pianissimo sempre | | • | 3. Danza pastorale. Allegro | | • | 1. Allegro non molto | | • | 2. Adagio | | • | 3. Presto. Tempo impetuoso d'Estate | | • | 1st Movement | | • | 2nd Movement | | • | 3rd Movement | | • | Allegro non molto | | • | Largo | | • | Allegro | | • | Allegro moderato | | • | Largo | | • | Allegro | | • | I. Allegro | | • | II. Largo | | • | III. Allegro |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Listen to some samples before you buy this one March 16, 2008
Michael Schmidt (Oregon USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Be sure to listen to some samples before you buy this CD. I figured out what the cover image of an instrument being shattered by a high caliber bullet means after about five minutes: it was fired from the audience! To me, listening to this was like listening to your dentist use his drill with "Baroque exuberance." If you like the samples, then enjoy.
Dramatic Passion June 10, 2007
Biberfan (Virginia, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Historically, we need to understand where this recording came from... I'm not talking about the history of Vivaldi, per se, but of modern recordings of his 4 seasons.
Nigel Kennedy started it... with his 1989 recording on modern instruments. This interpretation is a reaction to that. It was the first on period instruments to match Kennedy's creativity and intensity. It's darker, however, and here the whole ensemble is involved ,not just the soloist.
Onofri is my favorite violinist.
The 2nd recording by Biondi with Europa galante is my favorite 4 seasons. But this is nonetheless a good recording and interpretation. I own quite a few... everything this ensemble touches glitters... and this is no exception.
L'attaque, encore l'attaque, toujours l'attaque February 9, 2007
Will (San Francisco)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Giardino really charge through this work in an energetic way. No matter, you have heard this work a thousand times. There is something fresh, new, and exciting here. And not just different for the sake of being different.
The only 4 Seasons you'll ever need January 10, 2007
The Daily Prophet (Newbury Park, CA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've loved this recording since it first came out. Il Giradino Armonico is one of the few groups that actually "gets" how Vivaldi was meant to sound. There are people who like their dried up, 19th and 20th century reinterpretations of Vivaldi. But for the full-bodied Venetian kick Vivadi intended, this is the recording you want. I own several versions of the 4 seasons, including one played entirely on Japanese Kotos. It's great music. But played by Il Giradino Armonico? It's fabulous, passionate, rollicking, moving music! I've given this album to numerous friends, most of whom think Classical music, or Vivaldi, is just a waste of time. Everyone always comes back to tell me "I just didn't know music could be as powerful and beautiful as this!" The performances on this album fully lives up to dramatic CD cover art. And the fact there's a couple extra Vivaldi concertos on the CD, bringing the playing time to just over an hour, means you get plenty of bang for your buck as well!
 The REAL "Four Seasons" January 9, 2007
H. McClelland (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I couldn't believe that a professional pianist who specializes in contemporary music was recommending to me a version of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." "What? I've heard over 50 different recordings of this piece, multiple times these last 4 decades! Yet another? What else can be done to this overplayed composition?" Because I trust her musical knowledge and taste, I ordered it. It is breathtaking and edgy, notes and phrases cut with a jagged edge of the bow that releases a new dynamic. THIS is what Vivaldi must have had in mind! You can hear and feel the birds and brooks as never before--not simpering suggestions of them. Il Giardino Armonico boldly leads us to a new Vivaldi.
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