André Gagnon et l'Orchestre Baroque de Londres - Mes quatre saisons (2026) [Hi-Res]

André Gagnon's 1969 album, Mes quatre saisons, is a charming and inventive work that perfectly captures the spirit of its era while nodding to the past. Recorded in London with the Orchestre Baroque de Londres under John Snashall, the album presents a suite of four "concertos," one for each season. What makes the record so unique is its source material: Gagnon brilliantly reimagines popular French-Canadian songs from the 1960s by acclaimed singer-songwriters like Jean-Pierre Ferland, Félix Leclerc, Claude Léveillée, and Gilles Vigneault. Transformed through a Baroque lens with contrapuntal textures and bright instrumental passages, these familiar folk melodies are given a delightful new life, creating an engaging fusion of 20th-century chanson and 18th-century musical form.