Some pieces of music are so familiar that it is almost impossible to hear them afresh.
Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons almost certainly falls into that category. The "Spring" movement has been used extensively in commercials and as background music, and the entire score is programmed frequently in concert halls around the world.
Classicalite recently wrote about Vivaldi Recomposed, Max Richter's fresh reimagining of Vivaldi's classic score for violin, chamber orchestra and moog synthesizer. A new edition of this work will be released by Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Classics on April 29.
I recently spoke with British violinist Daniel Hope, who is the violin soloist of Vivaldi Recomposed.
Hope told me that he has played the original Four Seasons literally hundreds of times. "I've played it since I was 8 years old, to the point where it's written down in my DNA," he said.
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