The Berlin Baroque Soloists have impressed before with the skill and style with which they play 18th-century repertoire on modern instruments with Baroque bows, and only the slightest hint of opacity in the sound gives a clue to the fact that they are not using Baroque instruments. The selection they offer here is mostly of works that have come to be among Vivaldi's best-known: three of the more popular multiple concertos from Op 3 (two for two violins and that old favourite for four, RV580), his one and only concerto for two cellos, and that “ripieno concerto” (RV156) that starts with a chaconne. There is also a cello concerto and one relative rarity, an unpublished concerto for four violins (RV553). The cello soloists Georg Faust and Kristin von der Goltz turn in strong performances that mix agility with neatly controlled tone and no little concentration; their reading of the central movement of RV531 is exquisitely drawn out, pushing it to limits of slowness but losing nothing in intensity. The solo performances in the double violin concertos are also high-class, and if the quality is less consistent in the four-violin works, the right to be picky arises from the fact that these players are members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Right now, indeed, Germany seems to be the place where this kind of open-minded interchange is being achieved most successfully. When the results are as good and as enjoyable as this, who could doubt its worth?