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The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works. [citation needed] Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino.
Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.
Promoted Vivaldi - Four Seasons 1 Spring mvt 1 Allegro - John Harrison violin.oga--KFP (talk | contribs) 20:04, 1 March 2007 (UTC) Note: Procedurally, when listed, this will be listed with the rest of the set at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Sven Manguard Wha? 22:27, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
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 .
Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention) is a set of twelve concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi and published in 1725 as Op. 8. All are for violin solo, strings and basso continuo. The first four, which date back to 1718–23, are called The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni).
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
The Concerto alla rustica, unlike some other of Vivaldi's concertos, did not include a descriptive programme. [2] It was composed some time between mid-1720 and 1730, during which time Vivaldi was working on his Contest Between Harmony and Invention, Op. 8—the work from which his best-known set of compositions, The Four Seasons, derives.
His subsequent recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1989 sold over two million copies and earned a place as one of the best-selling of all classical recordings. [6] The album remained at the top of the UK classical charts for over a year, with total sales of over three million units. [7]