• Richter’s reworking of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is sensuous, lyrical and.sonic. He takes a classic motif to new greatness. Vivaldi is not turning over in his grave.
• Max Richter and his ensemble, alongside Daniel Hope, will be performing The Four Seasons Recomposed at the Royal Albert Hall on October 4th, as well as Richter's 2004 composition, The Blue Notebooks.
• Version 2 of The Four Seasons: Recomposed By Max Richter features stunning new artwork and five new bonus tracks, so called shadows which are electronic landscapes that were made for a live performance of the work with accompanying visual material made by the Danish game designers DarkMatters.He and Max developed these pieces to intercut with the written orchestral material, and to illuminate.

• Vivaldi Four Seasons By Max Richter

Composer Max Richter has rewritten Vivaldi s Four Seasons. Daniel Hope, playing the solo part with the Berlin Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra, has turned it into a miraculously pulsating piece of contemporary music. Vivaldi Recomposed by Max Richter now on CD.

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