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. The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione ( The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). These were composed around 1718−1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua.

The Four Seasons ( Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. “from the perspective of somebody who’s heard minimal music, who’s heard electronica, who’s heard post-rock.Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. While in the liner notes Max Richter acknowledges the influence of Led Zeppelin, The Beach Boys or The Beatles, the concerto was also reworked What makes the project really interesting is the revisit of a 1725 piece with the hindsight of 287 years of music and popular culture.

“I decided to rewrite the score on a note level which meant re-recording it with an orchestra I went through it, picking my favourite bits and turning those up and making new objects out of those The piece is pretty radical with the material, I’ve probably thrown away three quarters of the notes, but I’ve kept the gestures and the shape and the texture and the dynamics of Vivaldi.” Max Richter Released at the end of 2012, Recomposed by Max Richter is neither another interpretation of the Four Seasons nor a remix but a rework of the original piece based on Vivaldi’s score.

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