Luogo e data di registrazione		Casino Zögernitz, Vienna (Austria) - ottobre 1976 e marzo 1977
	Registrazione: live / studio		studio
	Producer		Heinirich Weritz
	Edizione CD		TELDEC - 8.42985 XH (243 005-2) - (1 CD - durata 53' 42") - (c) 1989 - ADD
	Originale LP		TELDEC - 6.42985 AZ - (1 LP - durata 53' 42") - (p) 1977 - Analogico
	Note		-

Vivaldi wrote the majority of his numerous concertos for his own ensemble, the famous girls orchestra of the "Ospedale della Pietà" in Venice. As from 1704 Vivaldi was employed as violin teacher and from about 1716 as "maestro dei concerti" at this institution, which was a kind of foundlings or orphans home and of which there were several in Venice at that time. Concerning the programme of the pieces in detail. Vivaldi transferred the sonetts to the seasons so accurately into tone language that he marked with letters the places in the parts which corresponded with certain lines of the sonett. Frequently the musical figures overlap each other, for instance when the dog barks while the shepherd is sleeping and the leaves rustle in the wind, or when the fleeing game is being shot at... In the first concerto "La Primavera", the appearance of spring is represented so to speak with heralds, in an absolutely theatrical manner. The heavy breathing, the languishing in the summer heat, is depicted in the utmost pianissimo; the slightest movement is immediately followed by exhaustion. The autumn concerto starts with a merry peasant dancing song. The solo violin plays the role here of the choir leader who repeats and embellishes the chorus verses. Vivaldi paints pure enjoyment the drunken peasant in all the phases of his condition, repeatedly interrupted by the general folk song. Freezing in the winter cold is expressed on the one hand by a sharp bowed vibrato (similar alto to other frost scenes around 1700), and on the other by cutting dissonances; in the first violin part even by means of a trill-like two-finger vibrato. The programmes of the other concertos are much farther ranging and more abstract than the seasons concertos. In "La tempesta di Mare" the stormy sea is painted with its huge wawes rolling in from afar, building up with increasing closeness and continuously, so to speak syncoptically, with foam-covered tips tumbling over each other. In the concerto "Il Piacere" (Joy) from the very outset embellished fifth leaps and symcopation depict jubilating joy. The slow movement with its 12/8 siciliano rhythm is apparently a description of nature; during the baroque period pastoral scenes were always, of course, signs of harmony, of pure, innocent joy.