![]() Carmignola’s 2nd recording of the Four Seasons ![]() The three experts in the program liked it as well, but in the end found it a bit too middle of the road (and they have a point in a way) and preferred in the end the more extreme recordings by Diego Faso’s, very theatrical, worth checking out, but a bit “too much” for me, and Midori Seiler with the Akademie für Alte Musik, a really good recording but I personally don’t like the sound of Seiler’s violin very much). In a nutshell, that program confirmed my clear preference for Carmignola. I was surprised how close these two versions were, in spite of being recorded with 10 years between them. However, luckily for me, Carmignola actually recorded the Four Seasons twice, and his earlier recording with the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca was selected. Unfortunately, exactly this recording didn’t appear. In any case, I was obviously very curious if it would appear in the Disques en lice selection, and how it would compare. So take this with a grain of salt, obviously there are many other good recordings out there. I had chosen my personal preference, the recording by Carmignola below, some time ago after comparing about 20 versions. Obviously, this work has been recorded a gazillion times. On my personal playlist it appears about 1 per year. ![]() But if you haven’t listened to it for a while and actually give it a go again with a fresh ear, there are many beautiful elements in there that makes it worth going back to it occasionally. Obviously this has been overplayed to death. I wouldn’t go as far as Stravinsky who said Vivaldi had written the same concerto 400 times, he has a point though.īut obviously, you just HAVE to have a version of the world most famous program music, the Four Seasons, in any decent record collection (or music collection to be more generic, does anybody still collect records out there?). I’ve mentioned previously that I’m not a very big Vivaldi fan. On my personal scale, Bach and even partially Händel are miles ahead of the Red Priest. They’ve recently compared 7 versions of the world famous Four Seasons. Another blog post triggered by the series of blind comparisons on Swiss radio, Disques en lice, the French version, this time. ![]()
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