For this new recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Jordi Savall conducts an all-female orchestra, as Vivaldi did in his time at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.
The soloist Alfia Bakieva is a violinist of Tatar origin currently living in Salzburg, Austria.
This double album sold at the price of a single new release offers the recording of the Four Seasons with and without the sonnets written by Vivaldi and four others concerti by Vivaldi.
The version with read text sheds a particularly revealing light on Vivaldi’s work.
Works:
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 1 in E Major "Spring", RV269
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor "Summer", RV315
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 3 in F Major "Autumn", RV293
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 4 in F Minor "Winter", RV297
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in F Major "Il Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio", RV544
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E-Flat Major "La Tempesta di mare", RV253
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto Op. 3, No. 10 in B Minor, RV580
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, RV583: II. Andante
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 1 in E Major "Spring", RV269
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor "Summer", RV315
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 3 in F Major "Autumn", RV293
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 4 in F Minor "Winter", RV297