Max Richter - Recomposed: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72978
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 12th April 2024
Contents
Artists
Daniel Rowland (violin)Stift Festival Orchestra
Works
Recomposed: The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)Artists
Daniel Rowland (violin)Stift Festival Orchestra
About
Max Richter (b. 1966) is a London-based composer who deftly blurs the lines between the classical and electronic worlds. His 'post-classical idiom' draws inspiration from diverse influences.
Despite discarding 75% of Vivaldi's original material in his Recomposed: The Four Seasons, Max Richter considers the Italian composer's musical DNA omni-present in his reworking of the material. Richter's remodelled version retains the basic shape, and much of the spirit, of the master's original four violin concertos, each season about ten minutes long in total and in three movements, sequenced fast-slow-fast. Artfully, but faithfully, Richter rearranges the notes on the page, revealing anew the radiant melodies and lush timbres of the music, and transforming a piece dulled by over-familiarity into something luminously relevant to the present day.
In a statement about 'Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons', Daniel Rowland declares that 'it has been a huge pleasure to record these brilliantly imaginative, totally captivating and addictively energising seasons by Max Richter. I love the way the music morphs in and out of Vivaldi, using Vivaldi's brilliantly colourful and endlessly evocative music as a springboard and inspiration for a new masterwork, brimming with electric energy and shimmering soundscapes very much of our time.'
Daniel Rowland is a charismatic and adventurous violinist, director and chamber musician. With irrepressible energy, he musically intoxicates the musicians he plays with and those who listen to his performances and recordings. The members of his Stift Festival Orchestra mirror that energy and make this brilliant piece of Max Richter sound as cool, passionate, rough and intimate as it can be.
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