
The Dutch painter and concept artist Marcel van Eeden is inspired by Zapico’s ‘Four Seasons’ and creates for this musical cycle eight new drawings.

Bleckmann and Caine act as the narrators for Vivaldi’s AudioFilm. However, an orchestra has taken Winter from The Four Seasons and turned it.

8, The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni), transports listeners through the turning of the year. Theo Bleckmann and Uri Caine compose these sonnets and present here as a première recording ‘The Four Seasons Sonnets’: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. The Four Seasons, composed in 1723, is one of Baroque legend Vivaldis most. Published in 1725 as part of Vivaldi’s Op. Vivaldi, who was born during an earthquake, creates four episodes, each in three parts, corresponding with his poems. Aitor Hevia (violin) slips into various leading parts, mimics birds, a farmer’s boy, from who the storm wants to steal the annual harvest, becomes the game being hunted to death and blusters like freezing wind over the frozen land.

$ ĭigital Recording at Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Forma Antiqva), Granada, Spain, July 2011ĭigital Recording at Sear Sound (Theo Bleckmann and Uri Caine), NYC, USA, September 2011Īarón Zapico and his baroque ensemble, Forma Antiqva, interpret Vivaldi’s concertos with an entirely new approach, on period instruments.
