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You may not know the program of The Four Seasons, but the ever-popular first movement, La Primavera (Spring), includes violins imitating trilling birds, and scoring designed to maximize the feelings of height, space, and the freedom that spring brings (for everyone except the seriously allergic).

It's the playing, however, that puts Podger's version over the top. Made with DSD Super Audio / Horus DSD256 Pyramix Editing/Merging Technologies equipment and Van den Hul cables, this native DSD production is demonstration class. Natale, is to savor over and over—the recording puts a premium on color saturation, interplays and contrasts without ever drawing attention to itself. With period instrument timbres far less homogenized than their modern counterparts—the sound of theorbo in the adagio of one of the recording's infinitely lovely companion concertos, Il Riposo per Il S.S. Jude's Church, London, which is completely not immune to the very occasional low rumble from passing traffic or, perhaps, the Underground, the recording optimally balances acoustic resonance with clarity of focus. Instead, her sole desire, masterfully enabled by engineer Jared Sacks, is to honor the humor, invention, good spirits, and marvelous interplay of colors that have made Vivaldi's irresistibly tuneful concerto a perennial classic.Īvailable in stereo and surround, in download resolutions up to DSD256 or DXD—I auditioned it in DSD128—the recording puts a premium on color and space. Podger, who plays with and directs her superb ensemble of eight, isn't interested in knocking you over the head with pyrotechnic wizardry or some bizarre 21st century take on Vivaldi's Top Hit of 1730. "There are already 226 entries for it at !"īecause baroque violinist Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque's new, period instrument Channel Classics SACD of Le Quattro Stagioni and three other violin concertos by Vivaldi is likely the freshest, most joy-filled, and best-recorded of the bunch. "Why should I bother with yet another recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons?" you may ask.