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. for recorder and ensemble) – II.Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. The longer bow on the violin helps there.įor more of the best in classical music, sign up to our E-NewsletterĪntonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. In the slow second movement of the Spring concerto, the recorder just doesn’t have enough sustain to keep the long notes active. There are places, however, where this doesn’t work. We hear different parts of the music brought forward and, often, usually missed inner parts can take on a new sound. These kinds of arrangements show how the different arrangements can bring a piece that we may have heard one too many times back into our ear. Frackenpohl for brass quintet) (The Canadian Brass) The lower brass adds the bass sound that we’ve been missing.Īntonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. In the hands of the Canadian Brass, the trumpet can become the soloist, but the other instruments also add their own virtuosic touches, particularly when the time comes to imitate many different birds. When arranged for brass quintet, the work regains some of its dignity, if only through the slower tempo. But, what we’re missing is that sense of the soloist – and the noise of the organ itself seems to trivialize the exercise.Īntonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. It’s an interesting experiment because the organ contains so many sounds – bird-like high notes, solid supportive low notes. In this arrangement of the concerto for organ and trumpet, the organ plays all the parts – both orchestra and soloist. Allegro (Bolette Roed, recorder Arte dei Suonatori) All of a sudden, we hear more birds, more different kinds of than we may have heard before.Īntonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. What happens, then, when the violin is replaced with something else? Listen to this recording of the first movement of the concerto with the violin replaced with a recorder.
We’ve heard it and, dare I say, overheard it to the point of not being able to hear it at all. As a violin concerto, it provides the violin with the opportunity to show off the player’s virtuoso skills. We are so familiar with a work such as Vivaldi’s Spring Concerto from The Four Seasons.
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