Soprano Suzie LeBlanc has been among the younger faces that have stimulated the vibrant early music scene in Montreal and in Canada in general. She has a light voice, refreshingly attuned to the natural strain in music of the eighteenth century rather than to its athletic feats. Accounts of LeBlanc's early life specify her point of origin as Acadia, perhaps suggesting a rejection of the Anglo geographical entity of New Brunswick in which most of Canada's Atlantic Francophone community lives. She had both vocal talent and drive but was never particularly nurtured in terms of training even though her mother was a voice teacher. ~ James Manheim, All Music Guide.

Janine Jansen follows her first Decca album of violin favorites with this high-energy account of Vivaldi s four violin concertos, known and loved as The Four Seasons . The Dutch violinist leads her specially selected group of soloists in a fresh look at the most loved of all classical works. What gives this recording its tremendous freshness and sparkle is Janine s use of just one player per part. Gone is the heavy orchestral sound which is so familiar, this is a four seasons which sparkles with new life and energy, like a freshly cleaned old painting revealed in its true colors.

Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is the most famous work of Vivaldi, and among the most popular pieces of music barroca.A work appears here arranged by Michiru Oshima, Larry Coryell, Kazuhito Yamashita and Kazumi Watanabe for a duet of guitars and, presenting a fairly interesting that isntrumento, takes a very distinct coloration of the original, without changing the central idea of mъsica.Yamashita plays guitar with nylon strings while Larry played with steel strings, creating an interaction of tone that is very well explored during the music.The interpretation of both is very good and very different from each other.