Classical home listening - a fearless Four Seasons, plus Britten folk songs

The Guardian 0

Violinist Arabella Steinbacher dazzles in Vivaldi and Piazzolla. Plus, an impressive labour of love from soprano Marci Meth

• Given its ubiquity, we risk forgetting the heady originality of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons – until, that is, we hear it played by a dazzling interpreter. Every violinist wants to tackle these four-concertos-in-one, but keeping them fresh is a challenge. The German violinist Arabella Steinbacher was hesitant before going into the studio, “but then I thought, well, still this my first recording of it!”.