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The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua .
English: Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring) — Movement 1: Allegro from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. Live, Unedited performance — 3m:35.280s Wiedemann Recital Hall, Wichita State University. John Harrison — Violin / Robert Turizziani — Conductor / Wichita State University Chamber Players
He calls it ‘The American Four Seasons’ – with, you’ll note, the definite article: not just ‘a’ but ‘the’. In truth, there are some correspondences of texture, mood and structure that support the title. To a point. But Philip Glass is no Vivaldi, a composer who even at his most wallpaper baroque still has something to say.
The piece is a complete recomposition and reinterpretation of Vivaldi's violin concertos The Four Seasons. Although Richter said that he had discarded 75 percent of Vivaldi's original material, [ 1 ] the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music .
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It is composed of three original orchestral works by O'Connor. First is his piece for violin and orchestra, "The American Seasons" loosely structurally based upon Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons", and is conceptually a piece on American life, grounded in American folk music. "Strings & Threads Suite" follows, which traces O'Connor's "version of how ...
In 1996-1998, the Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov made a new arrangement of the above four pieces with a more obvious link between Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' and Piazzolla's, by converting each of Piazzolla's movements into three-sections, and arranges the piece for solo violin and string orchestra. In each movement, Desyatnikov includes ...