Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

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Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Artists: La Magnifica Comunitá, Enrico Casazza (violin and concert master)

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is one of the world’s most popular and widely recorded collections of music, a set that instantly became an international hit after it was first published at part of the composer’s Op.8 in 1725. No doubt it was its imitative directness – extra musical occurrences/phenomena evoked in an extremely suggestive manner and even written into the score, such as ‘the barking dog’ or ‘the drunkards’ sleep’ etc. – that caused such as sensation in its time, effortlessly bridging the gap between the salons of the highborn and the alehouses of the lowly. Today nothing has changed: the concertos are performed both by great violin virtuosos and famous hard rockers; they are works that are constantly being presented in new guises through the re-imagining and re-working of the musical score. This is an extremely infectious performance by early music specialists La Magnifica Comunitá.

00:00:00 Concerto in E, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269, F. I/22, ‘La primavera (Spring): I. Allegro
00:03:26 Concerto in E, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269, F. I/22, ‘La primavera (Spring): II. Allegro e pianissimo sempre
00:05:46 Concerto in E, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269, F. I/22, ‘La primavera (Spring): III. Danza pastorale: Allegro
00:09:37 Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315, F. I/23, ‘l’estate’ (Summer): I. Allegro non molto
00:15:23 Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315, F. I/23, ‘l’estate’ (Summer): II. Adagio – Presto
00:17:39 Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315, F. I/23,‘l’estate’ (Summer): III. Presto
00:20:30 Concerto in F, Op. 8 No. 3, RV 293, F. I/24, Lautunno (Autumn): I. Allegro
00:25:27 Concerto in F, Op. 8 No. 3, RV 293, F. I/24, Lautunno (Autumn): II. Adagio
00:28:30 Concerto in F, Op. 8 No. 3, RV 293, F. I/24, Lautunno (Autumn): III. Allegro
00:31:44 Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297, F. I/25, ‘L’inverno’ (Winter): I. Allegro non molto
00:35:00 Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297, F. I/25, ‘L’inverno’ (Winter): II. Largo
00:37:05 Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297, F. I/25, ‘L’inverno’ (Winter): III. Allegro
00:40:12 Concerto in E-Flat, Op. 8 No. 5, RV 253, F. I/26, ‘La tempesta di mare’: I. Presto
00:43:01 Concerto in E-Flat, Op. 8 No. 5, RV 253, F. I/26, ‘La tempesta di mare’: II. Largo
00:45:48 Concerto in E-Flat, Op. 8 No. 5, RV 253, F. I/26, ‘La tempesta di mare’: III. Presto
00:49:24 Concerto in C, Op. 8 No. 6, RV 180, F. I/27, Il piacere: I. Allegro
00:52:35 Concerto in C, Op. 8 No. 6, RV 180, F. I/27, Il piacere: II. Largo e cantabile
00:55:49 Concerto in C, Op. 8 No. 6, RV 180, F. I/2, Il piacere: III. Allegro