Vivaldi: Four Seasons [Hybrid SACD]

Janine Jansen - Vivaldi: Four Seasons [Hybrid SACD]

Vivaldi: Four Seasons [Hybrid SACD]
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Artist: Janine Jansen
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
CD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
  1. Allegro
  2. Largo
  3. Allegro
  4. Allegro Non Molto
  5. Adagio/Presto
  6. Presto
  7. Allegro
  8. Adagio Molto
  9. Allegro
  10. Allegro Non Molto
  11. Largo
  12. Allegro

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Free Music Review: Vivaldi 4 Seasons: Emphasis on chamber subtlety, sparkle, wit, sheen, sophistication
Hit: 5 Stars

Like the appealing Cho-Liang Lin with Sejong - on Naxos in regular red book CD - this reading of the Vivaldi Four Season concerto cycle emphasizes the chamber concerto possibilities of the score. For listeners used to larger ensembles, the intimacy of sound and texture may take some getting used to, but, come to think of it, probably not all that much, nor all that difficult an adjustment to make.

As it happens, this amazing music survives the reduced ensemble as well as it survived the expanded ones that typically used to be the concert hall norm, as well as filling up the old recordings catalogues in the Baroque revival years. If anything, Jansen brings ever more subtlety to the musical color, sparkle, and wit on offer in each concerto than the hackneyed repertoire status of these works might lead any of us to expect from any new recording. Like Lin and Sejong, Jansen is one with her group, even more than Sejong if that is possible.

She commands, not with volume and thunderbolts and eclipsing everybody else on stage, but rather by truly playing as first among equals. Her fiddling is as fine as any other recorded version available, yet she goes beyond sheer technical mastery to leave us spell bound with wonder at her utter - and utterly fresh - identification with these thrice-familiar concertos.

I put off buying this disc, because I already have Lin with Sejong, plus a shelf full of very good other performances, few of which I seem to want to give away. I thought: What in the world would I be doing, if I gave in and got yet another reading.

Then curiosity and my love affair with superaudio surround sound got the better of me, and I played it out like Elizabeth I, slipping Jansen's Four Seasons in among a small stack, disguised like the forbidden death warrant that got Queen Mary's head chopped off. I really expected to get home, give it all a spin, and come to the conclusion that I've gotten old enough to be foolish. Then I could clear the air by picking some friend to get the Jansen reading as a nice gift on the right date.

Not. This one goes to the keeper shelf, right along with the period instrument Kuijken, the silvery Henryk Szeryng, yadda yadda, Il Giardino Armonico, Vladimir Spivakov and the Moscow Virtuosi, and Lin with Sejong.

You probably already own your own favs from before. Yet this reading with Janine Jansen and her friends (including the likes of Julian Rachlin, among others, wow) has a sweet special magic and color and fizz all its own. Am I thinking champagne here? Served most elegantly, exquisitely chilled, and warm with the gathering of life's long, dear friends.

Get this one if you are not already sated, then. I predict you will be keeping it, too, instead of passing it on as a gift. And if you can hear the superaudio surround, well does it get any better? Final clue: I've already gotten four more as real gifts for friends at the office. If this is your own first Four Seasons concerto cycle, you will be off to such a fine start that you might have to bring your grade point up this term, just to acknowledge your own possibilities for appreciating the good things in life, suddenly revealed, within unexpected new reach.
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