While there is certainly no lack of recordings of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”, this recording gives a radically new insight into the well known work, and that within the framework of so called historical performance practice.

Our version differs fundamentally from all previous ones in two particulars:
1. It is played here as chamber music, i.e. no single parts are doubled. You also do not hear a chamber orchestra with a solo violin, but simply three violins (of which the first plays the solo part), a viola and a violoncello (of a kind described below), all of them supported by just a harpsichord. The continuo line is not doubled by a double-bass or a violone.

2. The “violoncello” used here is a “violoncello da spalla”, i. e. a “shoulder-cello”.