A little bit of madness .....

For registration, the Italian virtuoso is surrounded by the Venice Baroque Orchestra which aligns fifteen strings, organ and finally a theorbo and harpsichord played by Andrea Marcon who also directs.

Early spring is impulsive, we will not be bored. Giuliano Carmignolia shattered the spring to spring his bow just as the buds. The game between the player and the orchestra is moving, singing. By cons we are much more in a concerto for violin and orchestra logic. The largo evokes the sweetness of a clearing where the shepherd is asleep. Finally, contrary to all expectations, the extrovert game abandons any excess in the final allegro. Nymphs and shepherds dance with joy, where we so often hear a frenzied bacchanal. The fast tempo emphasizes badinerie hand, lightness miracle.

In the summer, again, every plan, every melodic idea unfolds without violence. Suddenly a quarrel shepherds, violin raves but with a staccato of a diabolical precision, slows to evoke questions about the storm that point. The musical discourse flies into all dimensions of time and space. The virtuosity of the gesture is combined with the beauty of sound, emotion. The violin serenade receives theorbo, birds and the breeze in the words of Vivaldi.

Carmignolia as Janine Jansen in his record, there is the same good question. That enable interpretations on period instruments? A new sound more shiny? Not only. Can we imagine that the hundreds of concertos written in the lights of time would have satisfied an audience of metronomic being played, without a poem that drives them? No, and here comes the response of an inventive game, syncopated, swift but a demonic clarity. The storm of summer is stated as the dance of the furies of Gluck. These artists give back the craziness, play and so long lost splendor.

In interpreting the fall, all the instruments involved, which becomes like the harpsichord soloist in the adagio, sleep time after the feast. An adagio breathtaking beauty and sensitivity.

In winter, let Carmignolia taken the cold, his attempts to frigid bites. The blizzard in Venice, it is a strong and cruel wind that chills Vivaldi wanted by our bones, we did flutter.

Another plus for this disc, three violin concertos unreleased complete the album.