I can find devastatingly little about the CD, as i listen on Spotify premium, but the whole series seems to be particularly coherent and very well mastered audio-wise. My favourite recording is on 'Great Composers 3: Vivaldi', but as it is a compilation, lacking a part from each concerto.
Things i've noticed are massive variations with how much harpsichord people see fit to use, wild musical conjecture concerning note length with delicate passages during Spring and Autumn, and the most irritating of the lot: treating the solo near the beginning of Winter I as a race with other violinists who have recorded the same piece. The Summer III and Winter I and III are the most varying i've found, with some truly horrible versions on spotify and CD compilations. In the late 1960’s the Seasons were recorded again featuring Roberto Michelucci.It's probably one of the few whole pieces i've heard enough (and enough versions of) to be quite critical of it, so what are TC's favourite recordings? I find the Michelucci set nice, but is just not quite in the same league as the others. The Carmirelli recording from 1982 is really the best of the lot, crisp playing and great sound. This recording is also part of the Vivaldi Edition Set 2.
8 in stereo with Ayo from which the Seasons are the first four works. The Philips Duo set contains the entire 1959 Op. Many early 1950’s classical recordings have gone out of copyright in Europe and are resurfacing under a lot of bargain MP3 collections as of late, so ignore the bad artwork, there are some hidden gems inside some of these collections. Well worth getting for the 4 Seasons alone. The 1956 mono recording seems not to be on CD except as an import, however it is part of an MP3 bargain ‘Essential Vivaldi’ collection that contains some other decent Vivaldi recordings. I actually prefer the mono version to the stereo remake with Ayo, there seems to be a bit more excitement in the playing.
Definitely more romantic than today’s recordings, but still it has a charm of its own. The releases from the 1990’s seem to be out of print, and really it is the earlier versions that are the real finds.Ī mono version was recorded in the mid-1950’s with Felix Ayo, then rerecorded in stereo again with Ayo in 1959, and this stereo version is available in several releases.The Ayo version is wonderful, and recorded before the original instrument interpretations began to surface. I Musici recorded several versions of Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ for Philips over the years, and all are great in their own way. I do love the ‘Four Seasons’, never get tired of it, and have about every imaginable recording of it in every performance style.
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