Expansive tempos and rich, vibrato-generous sonorities make this recording a good choice for listeners who don't seek the astringencies of period performance, or who simply want to take a musical bubble bath in this repertoire. Perlman and the London Philharmonic play unrepentantly on modern instruments and in a modern style, albeit not without Baroque savvy. This was before the period instruments craze had gotten up to full steam. Perlman's Four Seasons was recorded in 1976 in London's Abbey Road Studios. The 1960s era LP angel was a lot classier, and, well…. There are brief essays about the composer, the music, and the performer, and the series is given a unified "Old Masters" look through the inclusion of painting reproductions in faux "frames." (I must say that the angel, the label's old trademark, is starting to look seedy and irrelevant in this setting. This disc is from EMI Classics' "Encore" series, in which older recordings are reissued at a budget price.
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