Joshua Bell | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Excellent CD! | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons | Joshua Bell

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	• Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Joshua Bell SONY CLASSICS, 2008 average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fresh!

If you like The Four Seasons, you would enjoy this interpretation. Bell manages to make it sound fresh.

Joshua Bell

Bought this for my daughter who plays the violin.
He is her favorite and I also enjoy him very much.
Good disc!

St. Pete-Music Lover

Excellent CD!

For those classical music lovers, this CD is perfect. Joshua Bell is an accomplished artist and you can feel the power of the music in his playing. Not just Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the CD also includes The Devil's Sonata. This Sonata was written in 1713--same year as the Stradivarius violin Bell plays. What can I say? I listen to this CD all the time and have given it to several friends and family members.

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Vivaldi at its best

This is without doubt one of the finest CD's I have ever heard, regardless of genre. Mr. Bell's technique is flawless and he creates a sound and timbre that could only be approached by the great Heifetz himself. I cannot understand how other reviewers find fault with either the performance or the interpretation. The Four Seasons is not even one of my preferred classical pieces and, to me, gets a bit redundant on most recordings. Not so with this CD. Mr. Bell's interpretation of the well known and much recorded 4 Seasons is a revelation and filled with such vitality and energy, that one is kept at the edge of their seat throughout the entire album, waiting with baited breath for the next note. He has the ability to extract every ounce of emotion the piece has to offer and get the orchestra to rise to the occasion and match his energy and the extreme heights of his expressiveness. This CD is about as good as it gets; Bravo!

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Weak.

In my ever going quest for the perfect execution of the Four Seasons, I was very excited with the impending release of this version with Bell as the lead violin.

It was disappointing to say the least, the tempo lacks the inspiration, the tonality is pale and the spirit is just scarce in the execution of the masterpiece.

The certain passages in which Bell's skill come to light are few and short (certainly belonging to the masterpiece) and that raises the question if this CD was authored with the purpose of making Bell's violin shine, if that is so the case, the mistake was epic in choosing Vivaldi's the Four Seasons to do that.

Then again maybe I'm spoiled in having heard the powerful execution of Hebert von Karajan with Sophie Mutter before listing to this.

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http://www.amazon.com/Antonio-Vivaldi-Four-Seasons-Video/dp/B0017HT6SM

Be mature enough to go beyond the common fanboyism for an artist and realize that even among Bell's other works this one is mediocre at best.

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Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, who has enchanted audiences for two decades with his breathtaking playing and tone of rare opulence, has recorded Antonio Vivaldi's concertos The Four Seasons. Widely considered as one of the premiere violinists of his generation, Bell is joined on this studio release by the celebrated musicians of the Academy of St.Martin in the Fields, who toured the work with him prior to the recording sessions. This recording of The Four Seasons is coupled with another masterpiece of Baroque virtuosity, Giuseppe Tartini's The Devil's Trill. The liner notes by Linda Kobler explain the curious genesis of Tartini's piece and the indisputable place of Vivaldi's concertos in the history of sonata composition.

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Tracks
Concerto in E Major for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, "La Primavera" (Spring)/I. Allegro | Concerto in E Major for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, "La Primavera" (Spring)/II. Largo | Concerto in E Major for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, "La Primavera" (Spring)/III. Allegro | Concerto in G minor for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer)/I. Allegro non molto | Concerto in G minor for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer)/II. Adagio | Concerto in G minor for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer)/III. Presto | Concerto in F Major for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293, "L'autumno" (Autumn)/I. Allegro | Concerto in F Major for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293, "L'autumno" (Autumn)/II. Adagio molto | Concerto in F Major for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293, "L'autumno" (Autumn)/III. Allegro | Concerto in F minor for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter)/I. Allegro non molto | Concerto in F minor for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter)/II. Largo | Concerto in F minor for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter)/III. Allegro | Sonata in G minor for Violin and Basso Continuo, "Devil's Trill Sonata"

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