Universal brings together in a full box of soft prices Vivaldi recordings made by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert in the 1980s ARCHIV This box has to delight all Vivaldi since it is seven albums recorded by Trevor Pinnock and his English Concert that are clustered here: - The "Four Seasons" in 1981, first etching performed following the autograph manuscripts of Manchester - The concertos for various instruments (oboe bassoon, mandolin, flute, viola d'amore) - Full of "Estro Armonico" op.3 (including without serious rival interpretation of the concerto for four violins RV 550) and the integral of "La Stravaganza" op.4 (the latter being dominated by the opus Podger recent version) - The complete concertos for flute (played by Liza baroque traverso Beznosiuk) with a "Notte", again without equivalent.
Some will blame Trevor Pinnock's "English" side and, consequently, too much "wisdom" in the interpretation of these concertos, denying him a italianità that would suit necessarily Vivaldi. Ask yourself if some do not make it to contrast a bit. Pinnock has integrated it is an interpreter serving composers and not a musician who feels entitled to replay these geniuses did not understand their own music: it is useless gift to outbid. The English Concert refuses to violent ruptures tempos, excludes a continuo backfiring and the artifices highlighted and further swelling the sound on each long note.
