These are four violin concertos that give musical expression to the seasons of the year. The combined retail value of the component publications that make up. The four seasons were composed by Antonio Vivaldi, an Italian composer. Together with its excellent scores - new music plates have been prepared to create an unusually pristine and elegant edition - the volume provides a thorough introduction to Vivaldi's music and times, a new English translation of the original sonnets (with a guide to their linear placement in the scores), and extensive editorial notes for students of the period. This edition collects in one volume all four concertos that make up The Four Seasons. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, a recognized authority on music of the Italian Baroque, has researched primary sources in Italy to prepare this specially commissioned, authoritative new edition. This volume contains these wonderfully evocative masterpieces along with eight other concertos that comprise Vivaldi's complete Opus 8 - including The Storm at Sea, Pleasure, and The Hunt.ĭr. Their programmatic nature, based on the lines of sonnets printed along with the music, brings seasonal sights and sounds readily and delightfully to the ear: the bird calls in Spring, the swarm of wasps in Summer, the hunters' horns in Autumn, the winds and icy snow of Winter. Vivaldi's violin concertos called The Four Seasons are one of the best known and loved collections of string music in our time. Outside of the concert hall, you've heard movements of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in movies like Tin Cup, Spy Game, A View to Kill, What Lies Beneath, White Chicks, Saved, Pacific Heights and The Other Siste r just to name a few. Includes new English translations of the original sonnets and extensive editorial notes on the composer's life and work. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recommended Adrian Chandler (director/violin), Peter Wheelan (bassoon) La Serenissima an intensely dramatic account that will add spice to what has for many listeners perhaps come to resemble a dreary domestic relationship all are realised in vivid colours through the agency. Vivaldi's Four Seasons concerto is unmistakably Antonio Vivaldi's most famous work.
ANTONIO VIVALDI THE FOUR SEASONS PLUS
About the Book Authoritative version contains complete Four Seasons plus the rest of Vivaldi's Opus 8.
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