Antonio Vivaldi, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Alan Loveday – The Four Seasons (VG+/VG+) – LP, UK

The Four Seasons is an LP by Sir Neville Marriner, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Antonio Vivaldi, Alan Loveday released on the Argo label.

About this album

This celebrated 1970 recording of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons combines vivid solo playing with the polished discipline of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields under Sir Neville Marriner. Alan Loveday’s poised violin lines bring out the concertos’ dramatic contrasts, from stormy rhetoric to lyrical stillness, while Marriner’s lean orchestral approach keeps the textures clear and buoyant. A landmark in the modern revival of Baroque music on record, it helped make Vivaldi’s most famous work newly accessible to a wide audience and remains one of the best-known interpretations of the set.

Genre: Classical