Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, Campra, Corelli just to name a few great Composers of the early 1700's. They set the standard for other great composers who came later, (Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, etc,). A joy to listen to great music like Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Handel's Water Music and Royal Fireworks.

In line with regulations of the provincial stay-at-home order, the recording and broadcast of this concert has been postponed to a later date. For more information, visit hpo.org/20-21-season-updates

In 1960, the band known as the Four Lovers evolved into the Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli as the lead singer, Bob Gaudio (formerly of the Royal Teens) on keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on lead guitar and baritone vocals, and Nick Massi on electric bass and bass vocals. The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi’s works. Unusually 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. Listen to The Four Seasons - Summer on Spotify. Beethoven Relaxing Orchestra Song 2010. “The Four Seasons” is part of a tiny group of classical works, including Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” that are recognized by nearly everyone no matter his or her.

Please note the premiere date: This concert replaces Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, originally scheduled for February 20, 2021.

This concert is available to watch online from April 10 at 7:30pm EST through May 9 at 11:59PM EST.
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Stephen Sitarski, Conductor

Beethoven: Sonata in F major Op. 10, No. 2 (arr. Sitarski)
Richardson-Schulte: Emerge for Woodwind Quintet
Grieg: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major
Thea Musgrave: Orfeo III
Jan Koetsier: Brass Quintet, Op. 65

We welcome the warmth and sunny days of spring with this collection of musical gems that share optimism and joy. HPO core musicians are featured in chamber ensembles, providing a range of timbres from across the instrument families. The HPO String Quartet performs an arrangement of Beethoven’s sunny Piano Sonata in F major along with Grieg’s sprightly and charming String Quartet No. 2. The HPO woodwinds shine in Richardson-Schulte’s Emerge, which is inspired by reflections in water. Musgrave’s Orfeo III offers an escape through an imaginative sound world while the HPO Brass closes this program with Koetsier’s warm and sincere Brass Quintet.

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Review by: David Hurwitz

Another major discovery in the early music field courtesy of legendary producer Wolf Erichson, the Venice Baroque Orchestra and violinist Giuliano Carmignola turn in a performance of The Four Seasons as fine as any. Carmignola has the technique to take the music’s virtuoso passages in stride (check out any of the finales) without ever sacrificing intonation or firmness of tone, and he doesn’t “squeeze” out the notes as so many old instrument violinists today do. The interpretations offer numerous distinctive turns of phrase, especially at the ends of movements where, without huge ritards or abrupt stops, conductor Andrea Marcon manages a gentle landing that sounds both satisfying and inevitable. He also gives the slow movements their due without minimizing their Romantic charm: compare, for example, his deliciously seductive middle movement of “Winter” with Harnoncourt’s stressful, bump and grind approach. In short, Carmignola and Marcon manage to find that elusive balance between the need for formal coherence and the music’s descriptive qualities, with the singularly satisfying result that you can take the pieces either as illustrations of the scenes that Vivaldi describes in the (thoughtfully included) poems preceding each concerto, or simply as delightfully tuneful music. Either way, these performances work.

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The three additional violin concertos–the disc claims that they are recording premieres, and life is too short for me to bother to see if this is true or not–provide an even better reason to acquire this disc, even if you already have 10 or 12 Four Seasons in your collection. They are marvelous works, especially the big D major concerto that at nearly 16 minutes assumes dimensions of positively Bachian richness and complexity. In fact, this work would grace any “normal concert” (violinists take note), and it proves once again that the old charge that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 600 times simply isn’t true. As implied above, the Venice Baroque Orchestra plays all of this music with warmth, virtuosity, and a fine, singing tone. Sony captures them in ideally balanced, clear and natural recorded sound. Although Sony may not be doing much in the classical music field these days, its recent releases (Salonen’s Bach transcriptions, Perahia’s Goldberg Variations) have all been winners. This newcomer is no exception.

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Recording Details:

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Reference Recording: This One, Harnoncourt (Teldec), Il Giardino Armonico (Teldec), Shaham (DG)

The Four Seasons Beethoven

ANTONIO VIVALDI - The Four Seasons; Three Violin Concertos RV 257; 376; & 211

• Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
  
• Marcon, Andrea (conductor)

• Sony Classical - 51352
• CD