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Album: Fabio Biondi/Europa Galante

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Virgin Veritas

Anna Picard
Monday 06 August 2001 00:00 BST
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For all the scholarly interest in this recording (Biondi has gone back to the earliest manuscripts of 'Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione') Galante's interpretation of the 'Four Seasons' is a curiously genteel affair. Not for them the rumpus of Tafelmusik's exciting but occasionally raucous recording. Concerto 236 is the gem in the collection; sinewy and ravishingly clear.

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