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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / De Vriend, Van Zweden, Comattimento Consort
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / De Vriend, Van Zweden, Comattimento Consort

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Details

Composer
VIVALDI, ANTONIO
Artist
Van Zweden, Comattimento Consort, De Vriend
Format
CD
Label
Challenge Classics
Released
Jan 06, 2017
Catalog #
CC 72746
UPC
0608917274622

About

It is remarkable that listeners in later ages hardly ever share the preferences of a composer’s contemporaries. This is also true to a certain extent in the case of Antonio Vivaldi. The twelve concertos op. 8, Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione of which The Four Seasons are the first four, were only printed four times. The first edition, published in Amsterdam by Michel Charles le Cene, appeared in 1725, and it was reprinted three times by the Paris publisher Le Clerc. L’Estro’s popularity was equaled by Il Cimento only in France. This great success in France was undoubtedly due partly to the fact that French theoreticians often were less skeptical about the onomatopoeic potential of music than for instance their English colleagues. We do not know how Vivaldi himself regarded these theoretical questions. There are hardly any quotations extant from the Venetian master in which he airs his views on composition of aesthetics. Even the relation between the score of The Four Seasons and the four “explanatory sonnets” that Vivaldi had printed along with the first edition, is not quite clear. Did Vivaldi, in writing the Four Seasons, base himself on a specific programme? From the countless special effects the score offers it appears that this must have been the case. Yet the fact that some sonnet lines have no parallel in the music suggests the programme was not as well-defined as the sonnets would lead us to believe. One of the world’s most sought-after conductors, Jaap van Zweden has been Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 2008, and Music Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 02:58
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  2. 2 II. Largo e pianissimo sempre 02:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Largo e pianissimo sempre
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  3. 3 III. Danza pastorale: Allegro 03:43
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Danza pastorale: Allegro
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  4. 4 I. Allegro non moto 05:09
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro non moto
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  5. 5 II. Adagio 01:58
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  6. 6 III. Presto 02:42
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  7. 7 I. Allegro 04:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  8. 8 II. Adagio molto 02:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Adagio molto
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  9. 9 III. Allegro 02:58
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  10. 10 I. Allegro non molto 03:01
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegro non molto
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  11. 11 II. Largo 01:50
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  12. 12 III. Allegro 03:21
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  13. 13 I. Largo molto — 02:20
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Largo molto —
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden, Tobias Prenen, Dominique Citroen
  14. 14 II. Allegro ma poco 01:38
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Allegro ma poco
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden, Tobias Prenen, Dominique Citroen
  15. 15 I. Allegro 01:57
    Track
    15
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  16. 16 II. Largo 01:35
    Track
    16
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  17. 17 III. Allegro 02:09
    Track
    17
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  18. 18 I. (Allegro) - Allegro molto 01:57
    Track
    18
    Title
    I. (Allegro) - Allegro molto
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  19. 19 II. Andante 00:58
    Track
    19
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend
  20. 20 III. Allegro 00:59
    Track
    20
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Performer
    Jaap van Zweden
    Ensemble
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Conductor
    Jan Willem de Vriend