Plenty of people have “reimagined” Antonio Vivaldi’s great masterpiece The Four Seasons – most notably German-British composer Max Richter and our own Richard Tognetti’s Australian Chamber Orchestra arrangement with oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros.

Others have tweaked at the edges in an effort to bring a fresh approach to such a familiar piece. Others still have decided to play it straight. It’s a balancing act and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with their talented Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen tackle this conundrum with their latest tour, ingeniously pairing it with Vivaldi’s other great hit, the Gloria.

Shaun Lee-Chen and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Gloria and Four Seasons. Photo © Keith Saunders

Lee-Chen makes a laid-back and charming host to these four concertos with plenty of tricks to keep us amused; some of them highly successful, others less so. Solos and ritornellos are occasionally interspersed with short cadenzas of his own, tempi are played with and effects introduced: sliding Appalachian folk fiddle riffs and exaggerated bagpipe drones for the Spring rustic dance; a Stéphane Grappelli-like swing with walking bass for Autumn’s sleeping drunkards section.

All of these are carried off with aplomb, although why he takes...