It’s autumn, and it’s harvest time. Vivaldi kicks off the season with songs and dancing—workers in the fields celebrating the bounteous crop, accompanied by a flagon or two of beer. Violinist Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge bring a suitably joyful chaos to the opening movement, as the dances get ever wilder, the drink ever more plentiful. The second movement “Adagio”, Chauvin tells Apple Music Classical, has a cinematic feel. “It’s the night, and they are all drunk—Vivaldi’s music paints images, like in a movie. It’s very, very modern—it shows non-movement, as well as the waiting around, and the darkness.” Vivaldi whisks us off to the hunt in the final “Allegro”, its repeated, hammering rhythms mirroring the gallop of the horses. Listen carefully, and you’ll hear the snap of the guns, the roar of the deer, and its final breaths. “I can really feel the forest and the open air in the music,” says Chauvin, “but this is not a movement for vegans!”