![]() Hope: his performance (and that of his orchestra)īalances the contrasting demands of the piece’s two composers – delivering theĮnergy of Vivaldi while executing the slow build of a Richter-esque loop. Richter: rather than using the highly recognizable main melody from Vivaldi’s original, Richter uses a quieter, simpler few bars from the same piece as the foundation for his re-working.ģ. Might evoke a bird, a squirrel, a bee, or a brave plant breaking through theĢ. Here, the fluttering energy of the strings A decade after the release of Recomposed acclaimed composer Max Richter has returned to Vivaldi’s masterpiece and will release The New Four Seasons on 10 June 2022. Vivaldi: every movement from his “Four Seasons” creates With each one representing a different month of the year.ġ. Max RichterDaniel HopeKonzerthaus Kammerorchester BerlinAndr de Ridder. Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and 12 other pieces, both modern and not-so-modern, Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons. 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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