How many copies of Vivaldi's Four Seasons do you have?

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  1. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in! Thread Starter

    I just hit a baker's dozen with five additions in the last month:

    1. Nigel Kennedy in a 25th Anniversary set with accompanying DVD
    2. Mutter and Karajan in a 101 CD Karajan remastered box
    3. Michala Petri (on recorder) in an RCA box set
    4. James Galway (on flute) in another RCA box - very nice it is too
    5. Someone or other in a Brilliant Classics Vivaldi box
    Only the Kennedy was a deliberate Four Seasons purchase :cool:
     
  2. Samson7

    Samson7 Forum Resident

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    Great forum topic. Original. Non Beatles related. Refreshing.

    I have exactly one copy and it’s from a massive Phillips box set of Vivaldi performed by I Musici. It’s from the 60’s. I have to say I have heard many more modern interpretations that trounce my version yet they don’t exist on vinyl and, therefore, will never own them.

    I thought once that this was a piece newbie classical cliche. This things kills it the older Inget and the more I listen to it.

    He wasn’t Bach’s favorite composer for no good reason.
     
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  3. TonyACT

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    Is that the Michelucci one? If so, it's one of my dozen :agree:

    Quite respected in its day!
     
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  4. Samson7

    Samson7 Forum Resident

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    His name appears throughout the set. It may have been respected in it’s day, but the today today? I don’t think so. I will give it another spin.
     
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  5. Adam9

    Adam9 Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй.

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    I have 3, all on CD:

    Neville Mariner and the Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields on Argo

    Christopher Hogwood and The Academy of Ancient Music on L'Oiseau-Lyre

    Jeanne Lamon and Tafelmusik on Sony Classical

    The Marriner is a renowned classic, the Hogwood I bought after hearing it in a record store, and the Tafelmusik one I bought recently and I've only listened to it once so far.

    A couple of years ago I heard a busker play "Spring" on solo violin. That was memorable.
     
  6. ether-bored

    ether-bored click OK to continue

    none. what is the one issue you couldn’t be without....?
     
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  7. TonyACT

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    Nice. I have #1 and #3 of those. Haven't got around to either yet. One day :)
     
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  8. TonyACT

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    Difficult choice. I have one conducted by Stokowski I really like - probably not a popular choice :cool:
     
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  9. Samson7

    Samson7 Forum Resident

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    This is like asking if Ludwig mastered Zep II a hundred times and trying to find out what the best sounding one was.
     
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  10. kevin5brown

    kevin5brown Analog or bust.

    Zero. I should probably get one ...
     
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  11. mkane

    mkane Strictly Analog

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    2
     
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  12. StarThrower62

    StarThrower62 Forum Resident

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    I have the Telarc CD by the Boston Symphony which I purchased way back in the mid 80s. Haven't played it much in the past 30 years.
     
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  13. FrankenStrat

    FrankenStrat Forum Resident

    Just one copy, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Jonathan Carney, includes Vivaldi, Pachelbel Canon, Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BVW1048.
    Recorded digitally October 1993 at All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak - except Canon recorded at Abbey Road, Studio 1.
    Tring International TRP009
     
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  14. AJH

    AJH Senior Member

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    I have about four or five different versions, however, at this point in time, I only listen to this version. I have it in DSD 512, and while the performance is absolutely outstanding, the is sound is just plain spectacular.


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  15. Edmoney

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    Dare I ask you to create a poll of favorite version? :)
     
  16. TonyACT

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    As there are over a hundred of them out there that might be difficult :agree:
     
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  17. head_unit

    head_unit Senior Member

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    So I shouldn't mention I have a reel of The Beatles messing around playing some of The Four Seasons?:hide:

    I have three...one on Japanese Koto, then ah...blanking out. The Hogwood. And Trevor Pinnock with the English Concert, I really like that version, recommended by a former boss when I asked him as he'd played in orchestras. Bob, ya never steered me wrong!
     
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  18. head_unit

    head_unit Senior Member

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    Stream 'em all and decide for yoursel! Said boss was not big on Neville Mariner hence the Pinnock, which has a nice performance I like with sound which is slightly bright/lively. Hogwood has a more...I dunno, it's got that L'Oiseau-Lyre sound which is pretty neutral.
     
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  19. bruce2

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  20. TonyACT

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    Nice. As noted above it's one of my recent additions - quite liked it.
     
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  21. TonyACT

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    Haven't come across that one before, but as there are so many versions ....
     
  22. TonyACT

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    I was going to mention something about there being almost as many versions of Four Seasons as there are of Yesterday, but thought better of it :laugh:
     
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  23. Hadean75

    Hadean75 Forum Moonlighter

    I have two:

    Infinity Digital
    Orchestra "Classic Music Studio" St. Petersburg
    Conducted by Alexander Titov
    1994


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    Vanessa-Mae
    The Original Four Seasons and The Devil's Trill Sonata
    1998


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  24. HorseyAnn

    HorseyAnn Equine-loving, rhyme-artist

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    1. It's a gramophone record which I play on my gramophone.
     
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  25. Galaga King

    Galaga King "Drive where the cops ain't"

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