Here, the fluttering energy of the strings Vivaldi: every movement from his “Four Seasons” creates With each one representing a different month of the year.ġ. Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and 12 other pieces, both modern and not-so-modern, The tilting of the earth on its axis with his Orchestra’s own performance of He included Richter’s 2012Ĭomposition on his own release in 2017, an album titled, “For Seasons,” which celebrates The third party is Daniel Hope, a violinist and musicalĭirector of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. He did this in different ways for each movement sometimes the original melody is looped, sometimes parts of phrases are dropped to create jarring new time signatures, sometimes motifs are phased against each other.

The second is modern composer Max Richter (see week 182) who set himself the challenge, in 2012, of re-working Vivaldi’s masterwork. The first figure in this musical triangle is baroque rock star Antonio Vivaldi (see week 369) whose “Four Seasons” is famous enough that several of its soundbites are recognizable even by those who couldn’t tell Vivaldi from a Volvo. Tantalizingly brief piece of music, and two of them are people who have found There are three people behind this beautiful and

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