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
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| SKU | 40318-bundle |
| Qualities | DSD 512 fs, DSD 256 fs, DSD 128 fs, DSD 64 fs, DXD 24 Bit, FLAC 192 kHz, FLAC 96 kHz |
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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 | bbc-cd-of-the-week-radio-3, bbc-music-choice, bbc-music-mag-5stars, classic-fm-cd-of-the-week, diapason-5, diapason-dor, editors-choice, Radio-4-cd-vd-week, record-geijutsu, The-times-5 |
| Instruments | Baroque orchestra, Harpsicord, Theorbo, Violone, Cello, Organ, Viola, Violin |
| 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 Date | December 6, 2022 |
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons)
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| SKU | 40318 |
| Qualities | DSD 512 fs, DSD 256 fs, DSD 128 fs, DSD 64 fs, DXD 24 Bit, FLAC 192 kHz, FLAC 96 kHz |
| Channels | 2ch Stereo, 5 Channel Surround Sound, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround |
| Artists | |
| Composers | |
| Genres | |
| 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 | bbc-cd-of-the-week-radio-3, bbc-music-choice, bbc-music-mag-5stars, classic-fm-cd-of-the-week, diapason-5, diapason-dor, editors-choice, Radio-4-cd-vd-week, record-geijutsu, The-times-5 |
| Instruments | Baroque orchestra, Harpsicord, Theorbo, Violone, Cello, Organ, Viola, Violin |
| 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 Date | March 14, 2018 |
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) (140g Vinyl)
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| SKU | 40318-vinyl |
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| Artists | |
| Composers | |
| Genres | |
| 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 | bbc-cd-of-the-week-radio-3, bbc-music-choice, bbc-music-mag-5stars, classic-fm-cd-of-the-week, diapason-5, diapason-dor, editors-choice, Radio-4-cd-vd-week, record-geijutsu, The-times-5 |
| Instruments | Baroque orchestra, Harpsicord, Theorbo, Violone, Cello, Organ, Viola, Violin |
| 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 Date | December 6, 2022 |
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