The Four Seasons

IN 1984, Anne-Sophie Muter recorded a work with her mentor Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic that fulfills these demands: Vivaldi’s concerto cycle the four Seasons. And it was soon clear that the record on the EMI CLASSICS label was well on the way to becoming an international hit. In 1990, six years after it was first released, the artist was awarded a golden disc for 250,000 copies sold in Germany-a quite exceptional event in the classical business. In another four years, the same number a gain was sold, so that Anne-Sophie Muter has two things to celebrate in 1994: the record is 10 years old, and a record of a different kind has been broken.. The gifted violinist is the first solo artist in the history of classical records to win a platinum disc in Germany: a clear case for an entry in the Guinness Book of records.Had the famous record book existed in Vivaldi’s day, then the great Venetian Baroque composer would certainly have had his own entry: Vivaldi was not only a highly esteemed virtuoso, he was also the inventor of the violin concerto. Gifted with the ability to compose at breathtaking speed, he left some 450 concertos at his death, over half of them for violin.

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