Composed in 1725, The Four Seasons is Vivaldis. This recording and its preparation: practising in peace and quiet trying out sounds receiving and discarding ideas taking in the texts rediscovering melodies and, if possible, never listening to any Vivaldi recordings. The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. There is so much to discover amongst his works, away from mainstream sounds. I have, in the meantime, formed an even greater friendship with Vivaldi. 8 (the title Four Seasons was not used), they were. One just must not succumb to the temptation of immediately putting the familiar Vivaldi stamp onto everything. Yet in 1725, when Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter were published as the first four concertos of his Op.

At the same time, however, I was surprised to find a remarkable body of new features waiting to be discovered. Or is that perhaps the sound of only a few works from his rich oeuvre? When I played through “La Cetra” for the first time on the violin, I found some typical Vivaldi-isms which I really cannot stand. Gunar Letzbor: 'It is almost impossible nowadays to perform Vivaldi’s music without any preconceptions, even if one engages with it only rarely.

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