11/7/2023 0 Comments Largo winter vivaldi![]() But after his death these concertos were largely forgotten, until the 1940s when violinists like Bernardino Molinari and Louis Kaufman began recording them. T he Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) were published in 1725, perhaps written some years earlier, and were hugely popular in Vivaldi's time, with performances often led by the composer from the violin. And driving this baroque revival, at its very heart, were the four brilliant violin concertos that make up Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. I can still taste the pleasure that came with each new recording: the grace of the Italian banal I Musici on the Philips label, the profound confidence of Karl Richter's Bach recordings on Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv label (and so beautifully packaged), Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck and the upstart Glenn Gould each in their own way championing the Goldberg Variations, and the competing versions of Handel's Messiah from a cast of hundreds to a precious few. ![]() Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli, Telemann, and many more composers seemed to offer a measure of beauty and elegance and intimacy that had been abandoned by the likes of Liszt, Wagner, Mahler, and the modernists who succeeded them. O ne of the great joys of my life in classical music has been the baroque revival, which flowered just as I started buying recordings and began working in classical radio. Everything emanates cold, the walls especially. ![]() If you work in the evening you burn parthenons of candles-not for ambience or better light but for their illusory warmth. Only alcohol can absorb the polar lightning shooting through your body as you set your foot on the marble floor, slippers or no slippers, shoes or no shoes. ![]() winter is always somewhat antarctic, even here. ![]()
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