When was four seasons composed

Fast-forwarding half a century, the 4 concertos can now be safely considered as the single greatest sensation of classical music. The most eminent violinists have recorded it more than a hundred times. They have featured multiple times in TV commercials and Hollywood movies. From credit cards to cars, billboards, elevators to hotel lobbies, and even to mobile phone ringtones, their popularity continues to soar.

At a basic level, "The Four Seasons" is extraordinarily authentic, an association with profound elegance and luxury. It is full of glistening and brilliant sonorities, ingenious innovations with vivid solo lines capturing the essence of nature. The most important factor that renders into its popularity is the fact that it incorporates the basic human elements — the passage of time, the cycle of years and nature.

The program incorporates seasonal images and sounds spectacular, without constraining the imagination. Gift Cards Wishlist Account 0. Where Vivaldi undeniably did succeed was in his successful exploration of compositional techniques — those that made The Four Seasons. No wonder musicians talk of the intense imagination and character required to bring these concertos off.

The earliest taping still available was made by violinist Louis Kaufman and the strings of the New York Philharmonic in — it sounds robust but pretty unsubtle, too. In the young virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter made her first recording of the work, conducted by Herbert von Karajan — who insisted strings should sound rich and sustained in Baroque music just as in Brahms. At around the same time attitudes towards the performance of Baroque music had started to change.

With the emergence of the historically informed performance movement we started to see fewer players in front of microphones, and instruments strung with animal gut instead of metal; both things that are historically in-tune with Vivaldi.

This version, however, is different with the orchestra pared down to single instruments and the solo part played stunningly well by this wonderful young Dutch violinist. The result is a zesty, vivid and colourful performance of great individuality and distinction. Listen to the best Vivaldi works on Apple Music and Spotify.

The musicians get to use their imaginations, and the imagination of the conductor, to interpret what Vivaldi imagined in his head when he wrote notes to the musicians. He worked as the Maestro de Violino violin teacher there and wrote some of his most famous works during that period of time. And, with talent and fame such as his, he certainly had a choice in the matter. A Connolly Music Publication. Published by StringOvation Team on April 07, Share this article. Search StringOvation.