Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: There are much better recordings out there.

The fact that I gave this recording only two stars has nothing to do with the works performed here. Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" are true masterworks that never age. They are brilliant and priceless musical gems. However, this is not a very good recording of these works. I'm still trying to put my finger on what exactly is wrong. The tempos are a bit sluggish, and it's way too heavy for such lighthearted music. And yet, this doesn't quite describe what's really wrong with it. Maybe a large part of the problem is that there are so many superior recordings. I can't listen to these works without hearing great performances of them run through my head, which makes this recording even more difficult to sit to. For one of the few times that I've ever encountered, this Naxos release is truly not a bargain.