Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) (Download & Vinyl Bundle)

Brecon Baroque, Rachel Podger

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Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons)

Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) (140g Vinyl)

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Vivaldi penned more than 500 concertos. At least 214 of these are for solo violin and orchestra, but as Michael Talbot remarks, ‘scarcely a year passes without the announcement of some fresh discovery’. So, what was the ‘concerto’ to Vivaldi? What about it did he love so much to have composed so many? In the decade before Vivaldi composed Le Quattro Stagioni.

Despite what this recorded collection suggests, few of Vivaldi’s instrumental works have programmatic titles. On the whole, titles gesture towards a general mood. Il Riposo and L’amoroso are examples of this indication of Affekt – indeed, both are united in their key of gleaming E major. The case of Il Grosso Mogul is stranger. There seems to be no known link between Vivaldi and the Indian court of the Grand Mughal, Akbar. The extreme virtuosity required by the soloist in the outer movements, as well as the long, fully written-out cadenzas, suggest a theatrical function. Perhaps Vivaldi performed it as a ‘theatre concerto’ as part of an opera plot set in India. French royalty, however, did play a huge role in the reception of Le Quattro Stagioni.

Producer Jonathan Freeman-Attwood writes “Working with Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque has been an object lesson in starting anew and identifying the ingredients which make ‘Le Quattro Stagioni’ great works. Virtuosity is non-negotiable here and Rachel has it in abundance. But it’s the color, poetry, vibrancy and evocative characterization of weather, human warmth, and fragility, captured by the dynamic flux of Rachel interlocking with her colleagues in Brecon Baroque, that deliver near-unimaginable qualities in this music.”

Rachel Podger, Violin
Brecon Baroque

Tracklist

Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
1.
Concerto no. 1 - Spring - Allegro
03:26
2.
Concerto no. 1 - Spring - Largo e pianissimo
02:41
3.
Concerto no. 1 - Spring - Allegro
03:48
4.
Concerto no. 2 - Summer - Allegro ma non molto
05:17
5.
Concerto no. 2 - Summer - Adagio
02:01
6.
Concerto no. 2 - summer - Presto
02:50
7.
Concerto no. 3 - Autumn - Allegro
05:15
8.
Concerto no. 3 - Autumn - Adagio molto
02:20
9.
Concerto no. 3 - Autumn - Allegro
03:06
10.
Concerto no. 4 - Winter - Allegro non molto
03:18
11.
Concerto no. 4 - Winter - Largo
02:15
12.
Concerto no. 4 - Winter - Allegro
03:39
13.
Il Riposo - Allegro
04:06
14.
Il Riposo - Adagio
01:05
15.
Il Riposo - Allegro
02:27
16.
Concerto L'Amoroso - Allegro
04:31
17.
Concerto L'Amoroso - Cantabile
02:30
18.
Concerto L'Amoroso - Allegro
03:34
19.
Concerto Il Grosso Mogul - Allegro
05:37
20.
Concerto Il Grosso Mogul - Grave - Recitativo
02:53
21.
Concerto Il Grosso Mogul - Allegro
08:40

Total time: 01:15:19

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Jared Sacks; DSD 512 downloads created by Tom Caulfield at the NativeDSD Mastering Lab in Marshfield, MA

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Grimm LS1

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Bruel & Kyaer, Schoeps

Mixing Board

Rens Heijnis custom made

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These DSD 512 releases are all pure DSD created, they stayed in the DSD domain using professional software from Signalyst. They are not up samplings, for there are no PCM or DXD conversions involved in their production. They are re-modulations of the original DSD encoding modulations. The sonic advantage to these new Stereo DSD 512 releases, as with all higher DSD bit rate releases, is the wider frequency passband prior to the onset of modulation noise. This results in the listener’s DAC using gentler and more phase linear filters for playback of the music. Processed in the NativeDSD Mastering Lab by Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield, the resulting DSD 512 files are exclusively available at NativeDSD.com

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Jonathan Freeman Attwood

Recording Engineer

Jared Sacks

Recording location

St. Jude's Church, London, UK

Recording Software

Merging

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DSD256

Release DateDecember 6, 2022

Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons)

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40318

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Artists

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Composers

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van der Hul

Digital Converters

Horus

Editing Software

Pyramix

Mastering Engineer

Jared Sacks; DSD 512 downloads created by Tom Caulfield at the NativeDSD Mastering Lab in Marshfield, MA

Mastering Room

Grimm LS1

Microphones

Bruel & Kyaer, Schoeps

Mixing Board

Rens Heijnis custom made

Notes

These DSD 512 releases are all pure DSD created, they stayed in the DSD domain using professional software from Signalyst. They are not up samplings, for there are no PCM or DXD conversions involved in their production. They are re-modulations of the original DSD encoding modulations. The sonic advantage to these new Stereo DSD 512 releases, as with all higher DSD bit rate releases, is the wider frequency passband prior to the onset of modulation noise. This results in the listener’s DAC using gentler and more phase linear filters for playback of the music. Processed in the NativeDSD Mastering Lab by Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield, the resulting DSD 512 files are exclusively available at NativeDSD.com

Awards

, , , , , , , , ,

Instruments

, , , , , , ,

Original Recording Format

Producer

Jonathan Freeman Attwood

Recording Engineer

Jared Sacks

Recording location

St. Jude's Church, London, UK

Recording Software

Merging

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD256

Release DateMarch 14, 2018

Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) (140g Vinyl)

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Channels

Artists

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Composers

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,

Cables

van der Hul

Digital Converters

Horus

Editing Software

Pyramix

Mastering Engineer

Jared Sacks; DSD 512 downloads created by Tom Caulfield at the NativeDSD Mastering Lab in Marshfield, MA

Mastering Room

Grimm LS1

Microphones

Bruel & Kyaer, Schoeps

Mixing Board

Rens Heijnis custom made

Notes

These DSD 512 releases are all pure DSD created, they stayed in the DSD domain using professional software from Signalyst. They are not up samplings, for there are no PCM or DXD conversions involved in their production. They are re-modulations of the original DSD encoding modulations. The sonic advantage to these new Stereo DSD 512 releases, as with all higher DSD bit rate releases, is the wider frequency passband prior to the onset of modulation noise. This results in the listener’s DAC using gentler and more phase linear filters for playback of the music. Processed in the NativeDSD Mastering Lab by Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield, the resulting DSD 512 files are exclusively available at NativeDSD.com

Awards

, , , , , , , , ,

Instruments

, , , , , , ,

Original Recording Format

Producer

Jonathan Freeman Attwood

Recording Engineer

Jared Sacks

Recording location

St. Jude's Church, London, UK

Recording Software

Merging

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD256

Release DateDecember 6, 2022

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