BaL 17.09.16 - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

[BBMmk2]

My team at the Karajan Centrum are making notes of everything being said ...............

Was Karajan a Teddy Boy? :)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It's interesting that our reviewer chose one isolated moment - in the whole cycle to dismiss the whole thing.

EMI had huge and deserved success with this Mutter/VPO/Karajan recording.

[Barbirollians]

Returning to the overlooked and apparently unknown to the reviewer Kennedy 2003 version with the BPO It is good to be reminded how fine it is - immense character and very light on its feet without the affectations of 1989 ECO recording .

[doversoul1]

It's interesting that our reviewer chose one isolated moment - in the whole cycle to dismiss the whole thing.

EMI had huge and deserved success with this Mutter/VPO/Karajan recording.

I don’t think the cow / dog remark was meant to be dismissive but (I guess) a metaphor for something being not quite right for the purpose. It is one way of enjoying the work but if one recording is to be selected for appreciating such a characteristic Vivaldi’s work, it doesn’t fit the requirements. As for the huge success, it may have been the case of ‘Karajan sells’. That in itself was great for the work but it’s just not for the BaL choice. I think that’s all there is to this remark.

[Nick Armstrong]

Look away Alpie.

Radio 3 have 'entered into the spirit' with this post this morning....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

You see. I wasn't imagining it.

But I forgive the reviewer. It isn't his fault that the Radio 3 team has so many feeble-minded, crass individuals.

[underthecountertenor]

You see. I wasn't imagining it.

But I forgive the reviewer. It isn't his fault that the Radio 3 team has so many feeble-minded, crass individuals.

Crikey. Leave it, will you? It's obvious that your love for HvK knows no bounds, but please stop this.

Incidentally, ME was complimentary about Mutter's later recording, senza Karajan.

[Barbirollians]

Crikey. Leave it, will you? It's obvious that your love for HvK knows no bounds, but please stop this.

Incidentally, ME was complimentary about Mutter's later recording, senza Karajan.

On a cheerier note I am rather smitten by this La Serenissina recording

[Barbirollians]

The Sparf recording on BIS is really outstanding - wish I had bought it 25 years ago now but full price for a recording of the Four Seasons with no coupling was a step too far in those days .

[Beef Oven!]

I have been playing the La Serinissima/Adrain Chandler performance this evening, and I think it’s head and shoulders the best of all. Concerto Italiano, Concentus Musicus Wien, Giuliano Carmignola & Fabio bind are all excellent, but La Serinissima/Chandler is favourite. Somehow they make the very familiar music actually sound quite different from how we know it - not because of the period instruments or tempos, but something else that I can’t explain. What I will say though, is that purely thinking about the solo violin, Giuliano Carmignola is no.1 in my book. What a classy musician he is.

[BBMmk2]

Hi Beefy, I was bemused because the whole performance just didn't seem to gel with me. Rather like his Bach Goldberg didn't either,. Maybe it was just me, I don't know.