Concerto in Mi Maggiore “La Primavera” 1 Allegro 3’47” 2 Largo 2’21” 3 Allegro 4’27”
Concerto in sol minore “L’Estate” 4 Allegro non molto Allegro 5’24” 5 Adagio 2’17” 6 Presto 2’48”
Concerto in Fa Maggiore “L’Autunno” 7 Allegro 5’39” 8 Adagio molto 2’26” 9 Allegro 3’39”
Concerto in Fa minore “L’Inverno” 10 Allegro non molto 3’21” 11 Largo 2’19” 12 Allegro 3’20” Basso Continuo: Cecilia Radic violoncello - Laura Manzini cembalo
Concerto in re min. per due violini, archi e continuo F I n° 100 13 Allegro non molto 4’25” 14 Adagio 4’16” 15 Allegro molto 3’07” solisti: Salvatore Accardo - Laura Gorna
Concerto in Si bem. Magg. per violino, violoncello, archi e continuo F IV n° 2 16 Allegro moderato 4’32” 17 Andante 2’07” 18 Allegro molto 3’25”
solisti: Salvatore Accardo - Cecilia Radic
Conceived, recorded and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci Recording assistant Paola Liberato Recording date May 30-31/2009 valve microphones: Neumann U47, U48, M49 mike pre-amplifiers: Signoricci line, digital, microphone, supply cables: Signoricci Photo Andrea Piccioni Among the many violin pages that Giulio Cesare Ricci has recorded with Salvatore Accardo in all these years, the edition of Antonio Vivaldi's Le Quattro Stagioni could not be missed. The great Maestro has taken up the original manuscript of Le Quattro Stagionigiving an interpretation of absolute reference. As for the location choice, Giulio Cesare Ricci has made an exception, not a historical place but the Auditorium that the architect Renzo Piano has obtained from the old Polenghi Lombardo factory in Lodi. Even if it is a contemporary Auditorium, the acoustics are very natural thanks to the wooden structures used for the recovery of this room. Recorded in Stereo DSD on Pyramix using dCS A/D and D/A converters The recording was made without sound manipulation, nor equalization, nor reverb, nor compression and expansion... but natural sound with true timbre.
The Concertos of the Seasons are among the most original and extraordinary creations of Antonio Vivaldi. Today's audiences know this, but the contemporaries of the "Red Priest" immediately understood it. The originality is all the more surprising since the Concertos essentially follow the usual model: division into three movements Fast-Slow-Fast and alternations "tutti"-"solo" on the path opened by Giuseppe Torelli.
V. Pivovarov, M. Werba, A. Grato, T. Monogarova, M. Palazzi, M. Lehotsky, A. Elliot, M. Panova, R. Sharp Wexford Festival Opera Chorus Young Wexford Singers National Philarmonic Orchestra of Belarus - A. Voloschuk: conductor
S. Costa, A. Antonov, E. Morozova, F. Zahradnícek, D. Kelly Wexford Festival Opera Chorus - National Philarmonic Orchestra of Belarus - D. Callegari: conductor Wexford Festival Opera, 2001
Friedrich Flotow (1812 - 1883) Alessandro Stradella
New York’s Ensemble for Early Music Frederic Renz: direttore
Daniele - Mark Bleeke Re Baldassarre, Abacuc - Wilbur Pauley Re Dario - Patrick Mason Regina, Angelo - Peter Becker Astrologo - Johnson Flucker Leguleio - Douglas Shambo