Vivaldi - The Four
Seasons | Recomposed
Max Richter
Deutsche Grammophon.
SCQ Rating: 81%
While this
note-by-note rewriting of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons likely won’t unearth throes of
listeners wondering about Vivaldi – you know a score is already ingrained in
Western culture when about half of the rich villains in action movies have
hired a tuxedo-dressed quartet to perform it – but this disc should shed fresh
light on ambient-storyteller Max Richter. Like modern day Vivaldi lovers,
Richter’s following is quietly dedicated and sure to notice how his interpretation invokes the same emotional clairvoyance that adorns his post-classical catalog. Although
any surfacing revelations should be accredited more to Vivaldi than to Richter,
this terse reworking finds The Four Seasons’ beauty feeling sharper and more
resplendent than ever.
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