There’s no want of drama in Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge’s performance of Summer. They set the scene with a suitably drowsy introduction before the first violins’ cuckoo call brings life to the opening “Allegro”. The concerto, notes Chauvin, requires the whole band to evoke the sounds of the natural world. “This is a challenge today,” he tells Apple Music. “We’re so far from nature today in what we hear. We hear city noises, not those of nature.” Le Concert de la Loge travelled to Venice before recording “Summer” and found refuge on one of its islands. “The magic of Venice is that there are no cars, so you can hear the sounds of nature—the sea on the rocks, the wind in the trees, everything is there. It’s an inspiration, of course. But you have to make it yours. That’s a challenge. I’m not a farmer, so I don’t know what it is to lose my crop to a storm, like the farmer in the last movement of ‘Summer’. So I must make this feeling for myself. It’s like acting.”