Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) & La Follia (The Madness) features Violinist and Conductor Julien Chauvin with Counter-Tenor Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian and Le Concert de la Loge on Alpha Classics.

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More than 300 years after Antonio Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons, the most famous work in the history of music is still as lively and invigorating as ever. Now Le Concert de la Loge has recorded this Baroque treasure with its founder and director, the violinist Julien Chauvin, as soloist.

For the occasion, the Château de Versailles has loaned him an exceptional instrument: a Neapolitan violin by Nicola Gagliano, adorned with fleur-de-lys and inlaid decorations. This instrument, which was played by Yehudi Menuhin in the 1970s, comes from the ‘collection de Madame Adélaïde’, named after one of Louis XV’s daughters. It has not left the Château for almost a century and is in a perfect state of preservation.

The main work is complemented by Vivaldi’s no less celebrated La Follia (well known as music featured in the hit TV series The Addams Family) and an aria that is now famous in its own right, ‘Sovvente il sole’ from Andromeda liberata, the score of which was discovered in Venice in 2002. It is performed here by the countertenor Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian.

Julien Chauvin, Violin Soloist & Conductor
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Counter-Tenor
Le Concert de la Loge