Richter didn’t just re-mix extant recordings into pseudo-hip newishness, as DG’s “Re-Composed” series has done before.
His Vivaldi-goes-clubbing approach works extraordinarily well and it works best in “Spring” and “Summer” where Richter opens whole new avenues and sightlines of beauty, calm and distant – dotted with moments of wicked otherness and clever minimalist loops. He has composed ballets for the Royal Opera House as well as collections of ringtones. Richter is a genre-defying British composer fond of employing electronic elements. Improving isn’t really possible, so something new must be created off the old substance – and that is exactly what Max Richter’s re-composition manages. To paraphrase my earlier review: No one needs a mock-original or likeness of the Four Seasons. In doing so Fullana not only offers an alternative reading, which is something we should want to have of all worthy compositions, but he also presents this inspired 21 st century Vivaldi-knock-off in a new setting by interpolating the four concertos with three 20 th century violin (solo and solo + piano) bonbons. Listen to the best of Vivaldi on Apple Music and Spotify and scroll down to discover our selection of the 10 best Vivaldi works.Francisco Fullana is, to my knowledge, the first violinist to record Max Richter’s ingenious Four Seasons Recomposed since the initial outing with Daniel Hope on Deutsche Grammphon (among my favorite recordings of 2012).
Discover our selection of the best Vivaldi works featuring 10 masterpieces including The Four Seasons. He taught the violin there, organised services with music, gave concerts, and composed most of his major works in this position over three decades. In the same year as his ordination he was appointed violin master at the Ospedale della Pietà, a Venetian convent for orphaned or illegitimate girls. He trained for the priesthood and was ordained in 1703. Vivaldi’s concertos became a model for his contemporaries, and the form was soon one of the most important in eighteenth century Europe. He introduced a range of new styles and techniques to string playing and consolidated one of its most important genres, the concerto. But his most important achievement was in his music for strings. He ignited transformations in music for the church, the opera house and the concert hall. Antonio Vivaldi’s (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) influence on the development of Baroque music was immense.
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