![]() ![]() "It was incredibly thought-provoking," he says. And imagine how it felt for Recomposed's solo violinist Daniel Hope: having played the original for decades, he – and more importantly his fingers – faced a surreal task when he first picked his way through Richter's score. Part of the fun of the album is that your ears play tricks with your memory of the original: these familiar melodies do unexpected things, resulting in an experience that's both disturbing yet full of strange delights. It's pattern music, in a way, so there's a connection with the whole post-minimalist aesthetic I'm part of." I was pleased to discover that Vivaldi's music is very modular. "There are times I depart completely from the original, yes, but there are moments when it pokes through. You can hear this chemical reaction particularly well at the opening of Richter's reworked Summer concerto, which has become a weird collision of Arvo Pärt-likemelancholy in the solo violin and a minimalist workout for the rest of the strings. With instructions from Vivaldi in the music's score to play "like a barking dog" or "like a sleeping goatherd," performers have to use their imagination to achieve the sound Vivaldi had in mind.This involved "throwing molecules of the original Vivaldi into a test tube with a bunch of other things, and waiting for an explosion".According to IMDb, there have been at least 100 different films and television shows that have used Vivaldi's Four Seasons in some way.It is not uncommon for the conductor or director to read the sonnet aloud to the audience before performing the concerto's movement. ![]() King Louis XV took a liking to 'Spring' and ordered it to be performed whenever he pleased. Vivaldi's Four Seasons especially appealed to the French.As you listen to each one, you'll be amazed at how accurately Vivaldi musically portrays each sonnet without losing the overall quality and balance of the work. In the following sections, we'll provide you with YouTube links to each concerto and the text of its corresponding sonnet. It is believed that Antonio Vivaldi himself wrote the twelve individual sonnets to go along with each movement of the Four Seasons. Program music wasn't a technique that was typically employed during the Baroque period (in fact, the term "program music" wasn't invented until the romantic period), so Vivaldi's work is quite unique. When composers write a musical narrative set to a line of text, a poem, or any other form of writing (which is typically published within the concert's program notes), that is said to be program music. Since its publication, musicologists consider Vivaldi's Four Seasons to be among the boldest program music ever written during the Baroque period. The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) consists of four concerti ( Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter), each one in a distinct form containing three movements with tempos in the following order: fast-slow-fast. Inspired by landscape paintings by Italian artist Marco Ricci, Vivaldi composed the Four Seasons roughly between 17, and published them in Amsterdam in 1725, in a set of twelve concerti entitled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione ( The Test of Harmony and Invention). ![]()
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