Chauvin and Concert de la Loge explore the myriad subtleties and gestures of the music with infectious vitality. They enliven Vivaldi’s thrilling tonal landscape at every turn with intuitive and spontaneous responses to the music’s often mercurial character. Chauvin negotiates the frequent passages of solo bravura with seeming insouciance…Altogether, this is glorious music-making.

Make sure you aren’t holding a cup of tea when you put this disc on. The opening chord is the first of many explosions of vigour in this latest addition to Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition...The playing throughout is full of energy, and there are plenty of highlights that bear mentioning. The Il Carbonelli Concerto, RV366, is particularly exciting. Chauvin’s tempo is enthusiastically fuelled by those around him.

Dazzlingly played by Chauvin and his French period band, they belie Stravinsky’s lazy claim that Vivaldi composed the same concerto 300 times — this is edge-of-the-seat material by the composer of The Four Seasons.