The Siciliana variation (7’00”) is especially refreshing. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight. These were composed around 17181720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. In the opening track of the album, “La Follia,” one never tires of hearing variations on the same sixteen-bar phrase, Schayegh imbuing each with a new mood. The Four Seasons ( Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. In the Largos and Adagios, her embellishments are expressive and sit comfortably among a longstanding Baroque tradition. Short, fast quarter notes vibrate with appropriately subtle vibrato. In the allegros, Schayegh’s phrases are long and not interrupted by the demands of the bow or position shifts.
A Baroque specialist who studied, along with the rest of Musica Fiorita’s musicians, at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, her playing is remarkably smooth and inventive. the Four Seasons, American rock-and-roll group that was among the best-selling recording artists of the early and mid-1960s. Schayegh’s playing deserves quite a bit of praise as well. The autumnal hunt (track 10) is the perfect balance of jaunty and refined, which is to say, the ensemble has perfectly balanced staccato and legato attacks.
The eighth rests in the first movement (track 5) feel like eternities, as if the heat is so oppressive that the group can barely bring themselves to play the next pair of notes, and the ensuing thunderstorm (track 7) is no less convincing. The group’s Summer is one of the most languorous available, as they imagine themselves out of breath and exhausted.
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