Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni/Rebel: Les Éléments

In the eighteenth century, in both Italy and France, instrumental music was regarded as devoid of all signification and unable to affect the intellect unless it was accompanied by a literary argument (like 'The Four Seasons') or a choreographic action (like 'Les Éléments'). Long before Franz Liszt's symphonic poems, Vivaldi and Rebel - both of whom owe their claim on posterity to the works recorded here - showed they could create lively and descriptive instrumental music, admirably meeting the ontological, aesthetic and moral requirements of Enlightenment philosophy.

1: I. Le Chaos
2: II. Loure I
3: III. Chaconne
4: IV. Ramage
5: V. Rossignols
6: VI. Loure II - La Chasse
7: VII. Tambourins I & II
8: VIII. Sicilienne
9: IX. Rondeau
10: X. Caprice
11: Chaconne (Reprise)
12: I. Allegro
13: II. Largo
14: III. Allegro
15: I. Allegro Non Molto - Allegro
16: II. Adagio - Presto - Adagio
17: III. Presto
18: I. Allegro
19: II. Adagio Molto
20: III. Allegro
21: I. Allegro Non Molto
22: II. Largo
23: III. Allegro

Composer: Jean-Fery Rebel, Antonio Vivaldi

Conductor: Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

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