If you’re a Joshua Bell and/or Vivaldi fan, or if you’ve just arrived on planet Earth and therefore haven’t yet acquired your first Four Seasons recording, you only have to consider whether these performances are distinctive and authoritative and exciting enough to move them from the store shelves to yours. Of course, Sony already has a perfectly wonderful period-instrument Four Seasons with Giuliano Carmignola (type Q2494 in Search Reviews), and then there’s the very fine modern-instrument Anne-Sophie Mutter rendition on DG (type Q525), with an identical coupling no less, which like this one weirdly neglects to mention the Tartini sonata on the disc front cover or spine(!)–and we’ve yet to touch on other respectable versions by Fabio Biondi (Virgin) or Gil Shaham (also DG)–and no doubt you’ve already got your own favorite(s). Martin in the Fields, so it’s likely to be worth a listen, and perhaps a place on that already over-populated shelf. So this new one arrives and, well, it’s Joshua Bell and the Academy of St. The active catalog now lists more than 200 versions about a dozen is the limit of both my shelf-space and sensibility. You know how animal conservationists say that it’s essential to cull the over-populated deer herds every so often so as to make life better and less competitive for the remaining animals? Well, this is similar to what I do every two or three years to my persistently-proliferating stock of Vivaldi Four Seasons recordings.
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