When I interviewed singer/songwriter Jack Tempchin recently I joked about why older songwriters often lose their creativity.

Imagine the song titles compared to when the writer was young, I quipped. "My wife got fat", "She forgot the lube" (etc.).

We both laughed but it's true that you write about what you know and for older guys writing love songs and relationship-based songs can become problematic if not downright "icky".

If you've already got a version of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" that you like, I'm not suggesting you need a "second opinion" though in my world any well-produced, good-sounding musically worthwhile and well-performed D2D record is a treasure worth owning

However, if you don't have a copy of the old seasonal chestnut, this one, recorded 'direct to disk" would be a good one to own both for sonics and for the performance by Interpreti Venziani—an appropriately Italian ensemble that the producer describes as "the leading Venetian chamber orchestra."