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Vivaldi---The Four Seasons
ARCHIV,DDD,400 045-2
Simon Standage,Violino
(Gian Battista Rogeri,Brescia 1699)
The English Concert
Besetzung/Instrumentation/Distribution/Organico:
Violin I: Simon Standage(1.Solo),Micaela Comberti(2.Solo),Miles Golding,
Graham Cracknell-ViolinoII: Elizabeth Wilcock(3.Solo),Roy Goodman,Theresa Caudle,Nicola Cleminson-Viola:Trevor Jones(Solo),Jan Schlapp,Annette Isserlis
Violoncello:Anthony Pleeth(Solo),Richard Webb-Biolone:Keith Marjoram
Tiorba/Chitarrone:Nigel North-Organo:Robert Woolley
Directed from the Harpsichord by
TREVOR PINNOCK
Quelle/Source/Fonte:Manchester,Henry Watson Music and Arts Library,MS 580 Ct 51
Production:
Dr.Andreas Holschneider
Recording Supervision:
Dr.Gerd Ploebsch
Recording Engineer:
Hans-Peter Schweigmann
Mntage sonore:
Reinhild Schmidt
p 1982 Polydor International GmbH,Hamburg. c 1982 Michael Talbot
CD is manufactured by PolyGram in Hanover,West Germany
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SPRING
Joyful Spring has arrived,
The birds welcome it with their happy songs,
And the brooks in the gentle breezes
Flow with a sweet murmur.
The sky is covered with a blakc mantle,
Thunder and lightning announce a storm.
When they are silent,the birds
Take up again their harmonious songs.
And in the flower-rich meadow,
To the gentle murmur of leaves and plants
The goatherd sleeps,his faithful dog at his side.
To the merry sounds of a rustic bagpipe
Nymphs and shepherds dance in their beloved spot
When Spring appears in its brilliance.
SUMMER
Under the merciless summer sun
Languishes man and flock;the pine tree burns,
The cuckoo begins to sing and at once
Join in turtle doves and the goldfinch.
A gentle breeze blows,but Boreas
Joins battle suddenly with his neighbour,
And the shepherd weeps because overthead
Hangs the dreaded storm,and his destiny.
His tired limbs are robbed of their rest
By his fear of the lightning and the heavy thunder
And by the furious swarm of flies and hornets.
Alsa, his fears are well founded:
There is thunder and lightning in the sky and the hail
Cuts down the lofty ears of corn.
AUTUMN
The peasant celebartes with song and dance
The pleasure of the rich harvest,
And full of the liquor of Bacchus
They finish their merrmaking with a sleep.
All are made to leave off singing and dancing
By the air which now mild gives pleasure
And by the season which invites many
To enjoy a sweet sleep.
At dawn the hunters
With horns and guns and dogs leave their homes:
The beast flees;they floow its traces.
Already terrified and tired by the great noise
Of the guns and the dogs, and wouded it tries
Feebly to escape,but exhausted dies.
WINTER
Frozen and shivering in the icy snow,
In the strong blasts of a terrible wind
To run stamping one's feet at every step
With one's teeth chattering through the cold.
To spend the quiet and happy days by fire
Whilst outside the rain soaks everyone.
to walk on the ice with slow steps
And go carefully for fear fo falling.
To go in haste, slide and fall down:
To go again on the ice and run,
Until the ice cracks and opens.
To hear leaving their iorn-gated house Sirocco,
Boreas and all the winds in battle:
This is winter,but is brings joy.
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Antonio Vivaldi (1687-1741)
Le Quattro Stagioni
La Primavera(Spring) op.8 No.1
Concerto in E major,RV269
01 1.Allegro
02 2.Largo e pianissimo sempre
03 3.Danza pastorale.Allegro
L'Estate(Summer) op.8 No.2
Concerto in G minor,RV315
04 1.Allegro non molto
05 2.Adagio-Presto
06 3.Presto
L'Autunno(Autumn) op.8 No.3
Concerto in F major,RV293
07 1.Allegro
08 2.Adagio
09 3.Allegro
L'Inverno(Winter) op.8 No.4
Concerto in fa minor,RV297
10 1.Allegro non molto
11 2.Largo
13 3.Allegro
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