Antonio Vivaldi composed "The Four Seasons" ("Le quattro stagioni" in the original Italian) in 1723. It is a set of 4 violin concertos that offer an early form of descriptive music: for example, Winter makes prominent use of pizzicato notes in high registers as summer stirs up a storm in its final movement. The work was presented for the first time as part of Op. 8, later cataloged as RV 269, 315, 293 & 297. The Four Seasons remains very popular to this day, with some of its concerts spawning a large number of derivative works, while thousands of recordings of the original pieces have been made. It is still debated whether Vivaldi wrote these concertos to accompany four sonnets that may have been written by himself.
Performers:
The Modena Chamber Orchestra Music
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