Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations & Alfia Bakieva - Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 591 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 284 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:56:12
Classical | Label: Alia Vox
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 591 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 284 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:56:12
Classical | Label: Alia Vox
For this new recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Jordi Savall conducts an all-female orchestra, as Vivaldi did in his time at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. The soloist Alfia Bakieva is a violinist of Tatar origin currently living in Salzburg, Austria. She is a multi-instrumentalist, parti- cularly in the field of folk music, playing violin, folk fiddle, kyl- kobiz, ghizzhak and similar instruments. She studied Baroque violin with Enrico Onofri (Palermo Conservatory) and Hiro Kurosaki (Mozarteum University), focusing on historically in- formed performance practices in the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoires. Such a profile made her the ideal candidate for a collaboration with Jordi Savall. She plays a Francesco Ruggeri violin, built in 1680 in Cremona, Italy. This double album sold at the price of a single new release of- fers the recording of the Four Seasons with and without the son- nets written by Vivaldi and four others concerti by Vivaldi. The version with read text sheds a particularly revealing light on Vivaldi’s work.