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Title: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: Pauliwood on August 07, 2019, 07:49:04 am

Background (from wiki)

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. They were written around 1716–1717 and published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention).

Each of the Four Seasons has a distinct style and sound, which is your favorite?

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: T+ on August 07, 2019, 10:11:37 am

Spring

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: mw on August 07, 2019, 11:35:28 am

Winter

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: AZ on August 07, 2019, 02:25:22 pm

Good thread.

Winter
Summer
Spring
Autumn

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: flukey lukey on August 08, 2019, 01:25:25 am

1. Summer
2. Spring


3. Winter





4. Autumn


ps: winter is the most overrated "movement" of classical music ever.

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: DYM on August 08, 2019, 11:10:30 am

1. Winter
2. Autumn
3. Summer
4. Spring

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: AZ on August 08, 2019, 12:07:35 pm

Vivaldi overall is a bit overrated (I prefer Händel myself); Vivaldi's body of work (particularly the four seasons) is - just as Grieg's - some of the more accessible pieces of all classical music.

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: flukey lukey on August 09, 2019, 08:43:43 am

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chopin m8

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: Depotnoir on August 10, 2019, 11:41:51 am

Vivaldi's contribution to music was really just notable for his development of the concerto form and the influence he had on J.S. Bach, whose later concerto's arguably stand alone as the height of the Baroque Concerto before his sons, Haydn and Mozart revised the structure of concertos to partially reflect the popular sonata form of the Classical era

Summer is good though

Title: Re: What's your favorite concerti from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Post by: mw on August 10, 2019, 12:30:15 pm

I only really care for Romantic music. Schubert is the best composer of all time, followed by Chopin.