The Bond girls play Vivaldi for Peugeot

When Queen star Freddy Mercury and soprano Montserrat Caballé sang a pop aria together at the opening of the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, a new musical genre was born: Crossover. Since then, it has become bigger, if not better, and the top crossover names such as Vanessa-Mae and Il Divo are now household names.

Nobody in the crossover business is bigger than Bond, the classically trained British pop ensemble that consists of Elspeth Hanson, Eos Chater, Gay-Yee Westerhof and Tania Davis. "The instruments — two violins, cello, viola — may be the same as Haydn's, but the players are four near-naked girls, gyrating to an amplified backing track," says their fiercest critic, cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht.

Lebrecht will certainly not like Bond's latest project. To mark the arrival of the Peugeot 380 CC Four Seasons car, the group has recorded a new version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which reduces the four suites to four short tracks.