Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

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Release Date: 2nd Dec 2013
Catalogue No: 94637
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 40 minutes

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring)

Work length10:01

$3.00

$3.90

Erik Bosgraaf
Cordevento

I. Allegro [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length3:14

$1.00

$1.30

II. Largo [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length2:40

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allegro - Danza pastorale [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length4:07

$1.00

$1.30

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer)

Work length10:17

$3.00

$3.90

Erik Bosgraaf
Cordevento

I. Allegro non molto [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length5:02

$1.00

$1.30

II. Adagio [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length2:20

$1.00

$1.30

III. Presto - Tempo impetuoso d'estate [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length2:55

$1.00

$1.30

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293, "L'autunno" (Autumn)

Work length11:02

$3.00

$3.90

Erik Bosgraaf
Cordevento

I. Allegro [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length5:23

$1.00

$1.30

II. Adagio [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length2:31

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allegro - La caccia [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length3:08

$1.00

$1.30

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter)

Work length8:46

$3.00

$3.90

Erik Bosgraaf
Cordevento

I. Allegro non molto [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length3:21

$1.00

$1.30

II. Largo [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length2:00

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allegro [arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and chamber ensemble]

Track length3:25

$1.00

$1.30

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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 reworking of the musical score.

Such is the standpoint adopted on this recording by Erik Bosgraaf, who has chosen here to adapt the violin part for recorder, explaining how “the violin part can be played on the recorder with surprising ease, without many changes. In some ways it works even better than concertos Vivaldi wrote specifically for the recorder!” Years ago Bosgraaf performed The Four Seasons with a symphony orchestra; for the present album, however, he wanted to approach his ideal as closely as possible using Cordevento, a small baroque ensemble he founded himself, knowing all the musicians through and through. Bosgraaf’s aim is to make the four legendary concertos sound as if they had been written for the recorder in the first place – and the results are laudable, with the contrasts between the wind instrument and the accompanying strings revealing previously unheard stratifications and details. As the soloist himself puts it, “Listen to Vivaldi with fresh ears and enjoy!”

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