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

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Challenge Classics
Release Date
January 6, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VIVALDI, ANTONIO
    • PERFORMER
      Van Zweden, Comattimento Consort, De Vriend
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 06, 2017
    • UPC
      0608917274622
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CC 72746
    • LABEL
      Challenge Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    2. II. Largo e pianissimo sempre

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    3. III. Danza pastorale: Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    4. I. Allegro non moto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    5. II. Adagio

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    6. III. Presto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    7. I. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    8. II. Adagio molto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    9. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    10. I. Allegro non molto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    11. II. Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    12. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    13. I. Largo molto —

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden, Tobias Prenen, Dominique Citroen

    14. II. Allegro ma poco

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden, Tobias Prenen, Dominique Citroen

    15. I. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    16. II. Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    17. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    18. I. (Allegro) - Allegro molto

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    19. II. Andante

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend

    20. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

      Performer: Jaap van Zweden

      Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend


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.