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Violinist and Le Concert de la Loge director Julien Chauvin acknowledges the challenges he faces right up front in his note to this Alpha Classics release, writing, "Yes, 'another' recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons!" However, he goes on to argue, correctly, that the four concertos offer "an infinity of imaginative possibilities," and he and his musicians live up to the challenges thus posed to themselves. The first attraction is Chauvin's violin, a Gagliano instrument from Naples loaned by Versailles castle, which the violin is leaving here for the first time in a century. Yehudi Menuhin played it from time to time 50 years ago, but it has rarely been heard. It is a remarkable violin with a gutsy lower register that is ideal for the sense of drama that Chauvin brings to Vivaldi's music. That sense of drama is evident in Chauvin's general interpretations, which are fast and punchy in the Italian manner, and also in specific details that bring out Vivaldi's seasonal program; his readings are fresh and do not avoid tempo flexibility when it seems justified. The phrasing of Vivaldi's instrumental lines is also open to many possible interpretations, and even hardcore Vivaldi lovers will find new approaches here. There is a wonderful countertenor aria as an entr'acte and a muscular reading of Vivaldi's take on the ground bass piece La Folia, RV 63, as an imposing finale. The downside, perhaps, is the one-player-per-part performance; French traveler Charles de Brosses reported an orchestra of 40 girls at Vivaldi's Ospedale della Pietà. The small group reduces the huge contrast between the solo and the tutti group, which is, in some sense, the whole point. Adherent of this approach, however, will find much to enjoy here, and there is a lot even for others. Alpha's sound from Paris' Théâtre sicilien de l'Ambassade d'Italie en France is ideal.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Violin Concerto in F Major, RV 293 "L'autumno" (Antonio Vivaldi)
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Soloist, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Soloist, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Soloist, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Violin Concerto in F Minor, RV 297 "L'inverno" (Antonio Vivaldi)
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Soloist, MainArtist - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Violin Concerto in E Major, RV 269 "La primavera" (Antonio Vivaldi)
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315 "L'estate" (Antonio Vivaldi)
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julien Chauvin, Conductor, MainArtist - Ken Yoshida, MasteringEngineer, SoundEngineer, SoundEditor - Le Concert de la Loge, Orchestra, MainArtist - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, AssistantProducer
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Les Idées heureuses & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Album review
Violinist and Le Concert de la Loge director Julien Chauvin acknowledges the challenges he faces right up front in his note to this Alpha Classics release, writing, "Yes, 'another' recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons!" However, he goes on to argue, correctly, that the four concertos offer "an infinity of imaginative possibilities," and he and his musicians live up to the challenges thus posed to themselves. The first attraction is Chauvin's violin, a Gagliano instrument from Naples loaned by Versailles castle, which the violin is leaving here for the first time in a century. Yehudi Menuhin played it from time to time 50 years ago, but it has rarely been heard. It is a remarkable violin with a gutsy lower register that is ideal for the sense of drama that Chauvin brings to Vivaldi's music. That sense of drama is evident in Chauvin's general interpretations, which are fast and punchy in the Italian manner, and also in specific details that bring out Vivaldi's seasonal program; his readings are fresh and do not avoid tempo flexibility when it seems justified. The phrasing of Vivaldi's instrumental lines is also open to many possible interpretations, and even hardcore Vivaldi lovers will find new approaches here. There is a wonderful countertenor aria as an entr'acte and a muscular reading of Vivaldi's take on the ground bass piece La Folia, RV 63, as an imposing finale. The downside, perhaps, is the one-player-per-part performance; French traveler Charles de Brosses reported an orchestra of 40 girls at Vivaldi's Ospedale della Pietà. The small group reduces the huge contrast between the solo and the tutti group, which is, in some sense, the whole point. Adherent of this approach, however, will find much to enjoy here, and there is a lot even for others. Alpha's sound from Paris' Théâtre sicilien de l'Ambassade d'Italie en France is ideal.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:39
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Le Concert de la Loge Julien Chauvin
- Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
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