Vivaldi Les Quatre Saisons version de Dresde LArte dell Arco Guglielmo Vinyle - CPO777759

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. We offer you a new edition of our LP with 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 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!