Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Janine Jansen - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Janine Jansen
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Artist: Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Janine JansenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Allegro
- Largo
- Allegro
- Allegro non molto
- Adagio - Presto
- Presto
- Allegro
- Adagio molto
- Allegro
- Allegro non molto
- Largo
- Allegro
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Free Music Review: Exciting, Quite Original, Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" From Janine Jansen
Hit: 5 Stars
Startling, exciting, and quite original, are the very words to describe Janine Jansen's unique, quite insightful, interpretation of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons". While there are many fine recordings of this work, with the best of the relatively recent crop include Mutter's and Chang's, Jansen's recording deserves ample praise simply for its bold, daring performance of Vivaldi's concerti cycle. Why? Hers is quite literally a stripped-down interpretation, consisting of herself, five other strings (two violins, viola, cello and double bass), theorbo and box organ/harpsichord. It is a tightly knit ensemble that includes American violinist Julian Rachlin, her brother Maarten (cello) and her father Jan (box organ/harpsichord). This allows for a "wonderfully transparent sound" that allowed "the musicians to be very flexible in colouring, dynamics and timing", as she notes in the CD liner notes. An ensemble that has yielded a very brisk, and very spirited, interpretation of these Vivaldi pieces. Needless to say, Decca's sound engineers have done a superlative job in this recording, which was made back in the Spring of 2004 in a Dutch concert hall. If there is only one false note that might be seized upon by detractors of Ms. Jansen's exceptional talents as a fine young classical musician, then it is the existence of appealing, quite alluring, photographs of her in rather revealing gowns on virtually every page of the CD liner notes; however, do not use these as a guide to determine whether or not you should acquire what is truly an exciting, rather invigorating, interpretation of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons".
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