Four Stations Vivaldi

An excellent recommendation to listen to this solstice of June 20.

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The Four Seasons by Vivaldi: Movement 1. The first movement is about five minutes long, and is marked as “Allegro” – though the first minute or so is quite slow and moody. It’s the sound of languishing. When things pick up to allegro, we hear the “cuckoo’s voice” – it’s that repetitive pairing of notes, duh-duhhhh. Discover Antonio Vivaldi's top songs & albums, curated artist radio stations & more. Listen to Antonio Vivaldi on Pandora today! 🎵 Buy the MP3 album on the Official Halidon Music Store: Stream it on Spotify: iTunes & Apple Music: http. Amsterdam Sinfonietta en violiste Janine Jansen spelen Vivaldi's 'Vier jaargetijden' tijdens het Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival 2014.La Primavera/Spring.

Enjoy this solstice with 'The Four Seasons' by Piazzolla and Vivaldi. / Photos: Wikimedia - Pupeto Mastropasqua, Wikimedia - Anonymous Portrait

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Nature has always inspired composers throughout history. There are hundreds of works written with this theme as inspiration: Richard Strauss' 'Alpine Symphony', Claude Debussy's 'The Sea' and Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' are just a few examples. Among all these works, the most famous are 'Las Cuatro Estaciones' by Antonio Vivaldi, and Ástor Piazzolla's ' Estaciones Porteñas' reflecting the passing of the year in Buenos Aires.

Antonio Vivaldi's vision

It is rare that in the XXI century someone does not know at least a fragment of one of 'The Four Seasons', they are one of the most famous works in the world. There are four concerts for violin, in which a soloist plays in front of the small ensemble that complements the work. As is evident, each concert refers to one of the seasons of the year in the northern hemisphere. The four pieces are divided into three movements each, so that the complete interpretation lasts around 40 minutes. In our first recommendation, you will hear 'El Invierno', played on instruments in its baroque version, the period to which the work belongs.

'Vivaldi Stations' are commonly used as an example of programmatic music, this name refers to works whose intention is to create specific images in the mind of the listener. Vivaldi's famous works are accompanied by sonnets that indicate what each movement of each concert wishes to reflect, thus evoking the chirping of birds, the barking of a dog, the wind, dancing people, and numerous other images. The most interesting thing is that they are not just mere text, each idea is also reflected in the sounds if you listen carefully you will be able to identify each element described in the text, which will give a different dimension to the work. Below you will find our second recommendation: the texts in their Spanish version in a version interpreted with violin and piano.

The stations from the perspective of tango

Almost 250 years later in the port of Buenos Aires, Ástor Piazzolla created the 'Estaciones Porteñas' inspired by the southern seasons. These works follow the composer's style, that is, they are tangos. Each station is made in a single movement and they were composed for the tango quintet (violin, bandoneon, piano, guitar and double bass). Unlike the programmatic nature of Vivaldi's works, the Piazzolla stations reflect atmospheres, a product of his life in Buenos Aires, so the colors are darker and full of influences from other genres other than tango that enrich them. In our third recommendation, you will hear the 'Buenos Aires Winter' for quintet with the composer on the bandoneon.

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These tangos are among the most important and best-known works of the Argentine composer, with different versions for different instrumental ensembles. In the work the distinctive features of Piazzolla's style and its notable jazz influences are identified, with a strong rhythmic character that differs from the tango canons of the time, for which it turned out to be revolutionary despite the discontent they generated at the time according to the site Toda la música. The fourth recommendation is 'Autumn Porteño' in a version for string orchestra and solo violin.

Two recommendations that reimagine Vivaldi and Piazzolla

The penultimate recommendation is from the Deutsche Grammophon label, its Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter , where the German composer claims to have discarded 75% of Vivaldi's original work. Instead, he applied his compositional processes including loops, that is, long repetitions, tempo changes of the original fragments and the addition of electroacoustic sections, according to information from the Granada Hoy newspaper, which makes a harsh criticism of the album. Despite the controversy that has generated since its presentation, it is an interesting experiment to listen to Vivaldi differently, in addition to YouTube you can find him on your favorite platform.

The last recommendation is a live recording of 'Invierno Porteño' in a jazz arrangement. Although Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata, he lived throughout his life in the United States and in France where he had contact with the avant-garde of his time and not only in terms of concert music, so he was able to come into direct contact with other genres, like jazz, which inspired his music on a harmonic and rhythmic level, elements that would give his music personality. In this recording he performs the Jazz & Tango Project ensemble.

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Four Seasons Vivaldi

Introduction

“The Four Seasons” is a set of four violin concertos by Vivaldi Antonio. They were composed in 1723 and are among the best concertos ever written and are believed to be the best known works of Vivaldi (Katya-Oddio). This work is classified under the baroque music era. The four concertos were given the names “Spring”, “Summer”, “Autumn” and “Winter” with each resembling each season; for example, the “Summer” texture evokes thunderstorms, the “Winter” evokes icy rain. First published in 1725, the concertos were part of the 12 concerti. This essay will explore in detailVivaldi’s concerto “The Four Seasons”.

“The Four Seasons”

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This is one of the largest and popular works ever written by Antonio Vivaldi. It includes four violin concertos;it captures moods and illustrates stories that are related to a specific seasonof the year. Since they were composed in 1723, “The Four Seasons”continue to seduce, haunt, excite, and thrill people beyond their imagination as well as inspire millions of composers around the world. But what is their secret? Why do they continue to inspire people and how and where have they succeeded where others have failed?According to Jeremy Siepmann, each of Vivaldi’s movements is preceded by a lively exploration of its means and this is done with the help of many examples and very useful analogies. Thus, the seasons are more of an expression than a painting would be. However, Vivaldi was able to manage a painting while, at the same time, indulging a painting. His customary method was to encompass all the factors that are associated with program composition and, for “The Four Seasons”,he invented an external program that caused his method to be more focused (Everett 68).

The Concertos

Vivaldi wrote the four concertos to accompany four sonnets and it is believedthat Vivaldi also wrote the sonnets himself. The sonnets are divided into three sections that correspond to the concerto movement. It is amazing that Vivaldi accurately portrays each sonnet in such a way that he does not lose the overall quality and balance of his work. There are four concertos, namely:

• Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, “La Primavera” which was called “Spring”. This is about how spring has come and the birds are greeting it with a song and the streams flow along with a gentle murmur. Amid this, there comes the air with a black cloak, lighting and thunder which herald the storm (Gengaro).
• Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, “L'estate” which was called “Summer”. It is a harsh season scorched by the sun as flocks languish and pines are under fire. The west wind gently blows but suddenly the northern wind emergesas storm can be heard from a distance.
• Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, “L'autunno” also known as the “DanzaPastorale” which was called “Autumn”. Peasants celebrate their harvest with dances and songs as the mild pleasant air makes people abandon dancing and singing inviting sweet delights of sleep.
• Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, “L'inverno” which was called “Winter”. It is very cold amidst the freezing snow coupled with harsh blows of the wind. This calls for spending quiet contented days by the fire as it rains outside (Green).

“The Four Seasons”, as can be seen from above, retain their genre’s principles and their excellence is a measure of how Vivaldi comprised in two directions – being able to adapt both the soloist’scontribution and the program’s structure. The tinkering of the program makes sure that it is fitted with standard types of movement. These types of works are rather praised for their narrative style and imagery. The rules of the solo concerto dictate that the program must not include long lasting sounds like that of thunder; hence,this work is suitable for foreground painting (Everett 68).

For example, “La Primavera”, which is thought to be one of the most perfect compositions, has a lot of strings with a disjunctive composition. The first movement can be heard to be loud, fast paced, cheery and lively with dynamics ranging from mezzo piano from the soft points to forte at the loudest parts. It starts with a slow tempo till the 37th second and later picks after 25 seconds. This is a polyphonic piece and is characterized by a wide range with a contour that is more often up than not. More importantly, however, is that it is a happy piece that evokes images of warmth and sunshine. The movement, in general, is very lively as there is much contour as the shape of the piece ups with a few dips, thus providinga rejoicing feeling (G. Jennifer).

Conclusion

“The Four Seasons”is a representation of Antonio Vivaldi’s remarkable innovation during the Baroque Era Concerto. It shows wonderful evocative themes that artists have responded to in different ways throughout history. Although they have been praised by different people in variousquarters, the sonnets seem to be very clumsy with an amateurish verse, thus disappointing,asbasically the majority of people expect sonnets to be rather polished. Overall, however, “The Four Seasons” has an extraordinary appeal and it is recognized as the classical music entry in the Baroque arts, hence achieving the feat of being the world’s great example of classical music.

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