Juozas Rimas <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Could you please assure me the seasons are his best work and I don't have >to bother digging deeper? Vivaldi has written approximatively 514 concerti... If you like the Four Seasons, "digging deeper" could be very rewarding. The seasons are the first four of a set of 12 concerti, Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione (opus 8). I find them all inventive and very beautifull, especially La caccia (The hunt), La tempesta di mare (The see tempest), and Il piacere (The pleasure). A fantastic recording of these 12 concerti is Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien on Teldec (mindblowing Four Seasons, by far the best I've ever heard), but I am not sure it exists on CD. Paul Perron [log in to unmask]