In April 1981 violinist Gidon Kremer performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons leading the English Chamber Orchestra recorded in the baroque library of the monastery in Polling, near Munich. It is, as one would expect from a master violinist, a superbly insightful performance. The sound is resonant and satisfying although surely not true 5.1, and those who wish to have this music on video might well investigate it.

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For Mahler, symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problem...

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This large-scale live recording (Gardiner's second) was made in Venice's St Mark's Basilica. It capt...

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Karajan conducts these symphonies with eyes closed, often intently enraptured by the music, smiling ...

The production itself is quite beautiful: recorded in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice in Novembe...