Four Seasons Beyond Vivaldi

Four Seasons Beyond Vivaldi

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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, a quartet of violin concertos completed around 1720, even today dominate season-themed music. Here, however, we take you on something of an alternative seasonal journey, from composer Alexey Shor’s violin-fuelled spring in modern Manhattan to 17th-century Thomas Simpson’s cheerful winter dance scored for viol consort. There are works by Piazzolla, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky and Spohr, as well as vocal music evoking the beauty of nature and rural life courtesy of Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons and Vaughan Williams’s cantata for women’s voices and orchestra, Folk Songs of the Four Seasons.

No. 10, October "Autumn Song"

Khatia Buniatishvili

4:55

VIII. Introduction to Winter (Original Version from The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3) [Arr. Sir Simon Rattle] (Live)

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

4:10

Spring

3:23

Ouverture D'eté Opus 28

Pierre Bartholomée, Orchestre Philharmonique de Lièage Communauté Française, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

7:19

Autumn

Veronique Mathieu, Stephanie Chua

2:30

No. 1, White Scenery

Olga Jegunova

5:51

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

5:42

Memory of Summer

Juha Kangas, Timo Alakotila, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra

5:00

Allegretto

Joost Gils, Silveer Van Den Broeck, Vrt Philharmonic Orchestra

10:35

No. 2, L'été

2:28

D'un matin de printemps

Orchestre de Picardie, Arie van Beek

5:10

Spring 0 (2012)

André de Ridder, Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, Max Richter

0:42

Spring 1 (2012)

Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, Max Richter, André de Ridder, Daniel Hope

2:31

Allegro di molto

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra

6:22

L'Automne

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine

9:00

II. Winter Landscape

Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

4:18

No. 9, Waltz of the Snowflakes

Libera, Sir Simon Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic

6:40

Spring

3:06

Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Christian Reif, Philharmonia Orchestra, Julia Bullock

14:45

Summer. Largo

Alfred Walter, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

4:58

Der Herbst: No. 20, Terzett mit Chor - "So lohnet die Natur den Fleiss"

Andrew Foster-Williams, London Symphony Orchestra, Miah Persson, Colin Davis, London Symphony Chorus, Jeremy Ovenden

7:00

The Augurs of Spring - Dance of the Young Girls

Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna

2:59

Game of Abduction

MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis

1:08

Spring Rounds

MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis

4:04

Summer Song

Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset

2:25

L'automne

François Leleux, Jean-François Verdier, Sebastien van Kuijk, Orchestre Victor Hugo

9:58

III. Rondes de printemps

San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas

7:19

II. Der Einsame im Herbst

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski, Dame Sarah Connolly

9:11

IV. Epilogue

Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Okko Kamu

3:35

No. 6 Andante Grazioso in A, MWV U 161 - "Spring Song"

Daniel Barenboim

2:06

Movement IV

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica

7:05

II. Last Spring

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi

5:30

III. Imitation of Old Poem: Long Autumn Night

Long Yu, Liping Zhang, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

6:07

No. 2. Sommarsang (Summer Song)

Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Okko Kamu

2:16

II. Larghetto

Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin

6:24

No. 16, Winter Fairy

London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

1:14

IV. Autumn

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

12:08

Swedish Rhapsodie No. 1, Op. 19 - "Midsommarvaka"

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit

11:38

Automne

Sara Chenal, Olivier Pelmoine

2:25

III. Winter (Cadenza)

6:00

Symphonie de chambre No. 1, Op. 43 "Le printemps"

Darius Milhaud, Luxemburg Radio Symphony Orchestra

3:32

Largo from Concerto No. 2 "Les Plaisirs de L'Eté"

Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger

2:33

III. Rustle of Spring

Christian Ihle Hadland, Bard Bratlie

2:55

III. L'Ottobrata

John Wilson, Sinfonia of London

7:51

I. Reveries of a Winter Journey. Allegro tranquillo

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski

11:20

V. Der Trunkene im Frühling (The Drunkard in Spring)

Vienna Philharmonic, Jonas Kaufmann, Jonathan Nott

4:25

I. Fan

The Sirius Viols

6:10

II. Allegro

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic

2:42

Vesna, Op. 13

Marek Štilec, Czech National Symphony Orchestra

13:03

Summer Night on the River

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner

5:13

Golden Autumn

4:37

II. Invierno Porteño

Dzeraldas Bidva, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Arabella Steinbacher

7:45

May Song

Dmitri Ensemble, English Voices, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

2:47

I. Allegro vivace assai

8:32

I - Spring

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner

5:39

Summertime / A Woman Is a Sometime Thing

Akira Eguchi, Gil Shaham

3:32

Gloominess of Autumn

Juha Kangas, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Iikka Kotaja

3:37

Für Erwachsenere: 38. Winterszeit I

2:17

IV. Winter

Duncan Honeybourne

2:11