If you don't, the ensemble uses a European viola, possibly originally traded by Marco Polo for gunpowder or the Chinese recipe for noodles, later spaghetti. And now I embarrass myself. Some Chinese Harry Partch could even be yanking my chain. Yes, there's more than one Chinese Four Seasons on disc. NVE chose to add Chinese folk melodies to Vivaldi's work.
Somebody do a monograph on sino-Vivaldism.
This isn't the comfortably certain classical chamber music I grew up hearing on Mom's phonograph. The shelf is so crowded. Joyce Brabner is a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, writer who covers books, film and music.