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Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (2011) BD25
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The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. They were written around 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional violin concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione ("The Contest Between Harmony and Invention").

The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Unusual for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems (possibly written by Vivaldi himself) that elucidated what it was about those seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest and most-detailed examples of what was later called program music—music with a narrative element.

Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. In the middle section of the Spring concerto, where the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be marked in the viola section. Other natural occurrences are similarly evoked. Vivaldi separated each concerto into three movements, fast-slow-fast, and likewise each linked sonnet into three sections.


Cast: Antonio Vivaldi
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English
Subtitle: -
Region: All regions
Image Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Eagle Vision
Date of publication: 2011
Genre: Classic
Playing time: 55 minutes


Tracklist:

• The 4 Seasons: Violin Concerto in E major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, „La primavera“ (Spring)
01. I. Allegro 03:18
02. II. Largo 02:20
03. III. Allegro 04:12

• The 4 Seasons: Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315, „L’estate“ (Summer)
04. I. Allegro non moto 05:03
05. II. Adagio – Presto 02:13
06. III. Presto 02:42

• The 4 Seasons: Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293, „L’autunno“ (Autumn)
07. I. Allegro 05:07
08. II. Adagio molto 01:57
09. III. Allegro 03:15

• The 4 Seasons: Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, „L’inverno“ (Winter)
10. I. Allegro non molto 03:25
11. II. Largo 02:02
12. III. Allegro 03:07

• Violin Concerto in E flat major, Op. 8, No. 5, RV 253, „La tempesta di mare“
13. I. Presto 02:45
14. II. Largo 02:15
15. III. Presto 03:23

• Violin Concerto in C major, Op. 8, No. 6, RV 180, „Il piacere“
16. I. Allegro 02:57
17. II. Largo e cantabile 02:28
18. III. Allegro 02:43


Video: MPEG-2 Video / 5404 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6798 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitle: -
Playtime: 055min