Using a similar small-ensemble approach for this recording brought many musical advantages. It gave something special to the sound and to the freedom.”
He would put together a small group of players for me to get a chance to perform these concertos, and we noticed with Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons that it worked really well.
“When I was growing up I played so many of the Baroque concertos with my father,” she remembers. Including them in the recording was, for Jansen, a natural extension of many happy hours spent making music together in the family home. “And it was very exciting to experiment with this small group.”Īmong that tightly knit band of eight players were two members of Jansen’s own family-her cellist brother Maarten and father Jan on harpsichord and organ. “We did it with just eight people rather than a full orchestra,” she says. That’s because, Janine Jansen tells Apple Music Classical, this is a Four Seasons with a difference. Recordings of it run into the hundreds, yet this one, released back in 2005 and remastered in Spatial Audio, stands out for its vibrancy and sense of fresh discovery.
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, a collection of four virtuosic violin concertos completed in 1720 at the height of the Baroque era, has mesmerised musicians and audiences in equal measure ever since.
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