Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

by Daniel Hope, Andre de Ridder, Max Richter, Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin

Overview

Antonio Vivaldi's Le Quattro Stagioni is one of the most beloved works in Baroque music, and even the most casual listener can recognize certain passages of Spring or Winter from frequent use in television commercials and films. Yet if these concertos have grown a little too familiar to experienced classical fans, Max Richter has disassembled them and fashioned a new composition from the deconstructed pieces. Using post-minimalist procedures to extract fertile fragments and reshape the materials into new music, Richter has created an album that speaks to a generation familiar with remixes, sampling, and sound collages, though his method transcends the manipulation of prerecorded music. Richter has actually rescored the Four Seasons and given the movements of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter thorough makeovers that vary substantially from the originals. The new material is suggestive of a dream state, where drifting phrases and recombined textures blur into walls of sound, only to re-emerge with stark clarity and poignant immediacy. Violinist Daniel Hope is the brilliant soloist in these freshly elaborated pieces, and the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin is conducted with control and assurance by Andre de Ridder, so Richter's carefully calculated effects are handled with precision and subtlety. Deutsche Grammophon's stellar reproduction captures the music with great depth, breadth, and spaciousness, so everything Richter and de Ridder intended to be heard comes across. ~ Blair Sanderson

Product Details

Release Date:	10/16/2012
Label:	Deutsche Grammophon
UPC:	0028948100446
Rank:	48216

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Daniel Hope   Primary Artist,Violin
Andre de Ridder   Primary Artist,Conductor
Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Max Richter   Primary Artist,Keyboards,Synthesizer,Moog Synthesizer
L'Arte del Mondo   Orchestra
Kammerorchester Berlin   Orchestra
Raphael Alpermann   Harpsichord
Electric Monk   Synthesizer
George Scott   Director

Technical Credits

Cerebral Vortex   Vocal Samples
Neil Hutchinson   Mixing,Engineer
Werner Ehrhardt   Artistic Director
Christian Kellersmann   Original Concept
Nick Kimberley   Liner Notes
Goetz Michael Rieth   Mastering
Jenni Whiteside   Editing,Recording Editor
Nick De Grunwald   Executive Producer
Mandy Parnell   Mastering,Mastering Engineer
Matthias Schneider   Project Manager
Max Richter   Mixing,Composer,Producer,Remixing
Erik Weiss   Photography
Celia Moore   Producer
Felix Feustel   Product Manager
NYPC   Remixing
Fear of Tigers   Remixing
Andy Spence   Remixing,Producer
Antonio Vivaldi   Original Material
Robot Koch   Remixing,Remix Producer