Released August 31, 2012 Producer Max Richter Release date 31 August 2012 | Length 43:58 Recomposed by Max Richter Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
(2012) Sleep
(2015) Label Deutsche Grammophon | |
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Recorded March 12, 2012
March 13, 2012 Studio B-Sharp
(Berlin, Germany) Artists Daniel Hope, André de Ridder, Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin Genres Baroque music, Contemporary classical music Similar Daniel Hope albums, Contemporary classical music albums, Other albums | ||
Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons is the 2012 album by neo-classical composer Max Richter, released on August 31, 2012 on Universal Classics and Jazz (Germany), a division of Universal Music Group, and Deutsche Grammophon. The album is a complete recomposition and reinterpretation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
Contents
Although Richter said that he had discarded 75% of Vivaldi's original material, the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music.
The album is a collaboration between Max Richter, Daniel Hope, the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin symphony orchestra, and André de Ridder.
On the album, Daniel Hope plays the "Ex-Lipinski" violin, an instrument made by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù in 1742 and made available to the violinist by an anonymous German family.
Release
Richter’s recomposed version of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons was premiered in the UK at the Barbican Centre on 31 October 2012, performed by the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by André de Ridder and with violinist Daniel Hope. The album topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK, Germany and the US. The US launch concert in New York at Le Poisson Rouge was recorded by NPR and streamed.
Critical reception
Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons received widespread acclaim from contemporary classical music critics.
Ivan Hewett of The Telegraph gave the album a very positive review, stating, "As you would expect of a composer who once studied with the great modernist Luciano Berio, Richter is very self-aware. He notices that his own taste in repeating patterns doesn’t mesh with the apparently similar patterns in Vivaldi. They obey a different logic, and the friction between them generates a fascinatingly ambiguous colour. Richter teases out and heightens this colour, sometimes with Vivaldi uppermost, sometimes himself. It is a subtle and often moving piece of work, which suggests that after years of tedious disco and trance versions of Mozart, the field of the classical remix has finally become interesting."
Track listing
All tracks written by Max Richter.
Personnel
Songs
1Spring 00:42
2Spring 12:32
3Spring 23:19