![]() ![]() They’re wonderful instruments, clunky and unpredictable, but with a huge amount of character and a kind of gravitas. Seeing as we were going back to period instruments, I decided to use a vintage synthesiser, too, a Moog from the early 1970s, the decade that is the electronic music equivalent of the 18th century. Zurich Ballet’s 2015 work Kairos used Richter’s Recomposed. You can hear it particularly in the extremes in the very slow, tender music you get a very direct feeling of the individual players, and in the very fast, intense, dynamic music you feel the orchestra is about to blow up. They might make a smaller sound but within that sound there is greater light and shade. The instruments and the bows are lighter, the strings – made of gut rather than steel – are more responsive, so there is more intimate human connection. Period instruments have a different character from modern ones and bring out different qualities in the musicians. The impetus and the rationale was purely musical. ![]() ![]() My second-favourite emoji is the monocle one □and there was quite a bit of that at first – explain again why we are doing this? Yes, it’s 10 years since the first record, but this wasn’t about anniversaries. My record company was, I confess, a bit puzzled. I felt there was another journey I wanted to make through this material, and so I decided to rerecord Recomposed. There is something special about the textures and sonorities that period instruments bring to Vivaldi’s score, and I continued to think about what Recomposed would sound like played on the instruments of Vivaldi’s time. Over the past decade I have had the chance to perform the work with a variety of different orchestras and soloists. I was lucky enough to be able to recruit a stellar cast – the wonderful Daniel Hope and the Konzerthaus Orchestra of Berlin.Ī violinist in Chineke recording Max Richter’s New Four Seasons Photograph: Meeks So I made my 2012 record with a modern-instrument ensemble. I approached specialist orchestras that played with period instruments, but there was zero enthusiasm. When I wrote Recomposed, I wanted to record it with instruments as close as possible to the ones Vivaldi would have heard. However, it wasn’t quite the record I had originally envisaged. I think people enjoy having a new perspective on a familiar object, old and new at the same time, but I never expect or assume that people will listen to my music: when people connect to a piece I have made, it is incredibly heartening. It has been used in fashion shows, and all kinds of artists have made a connection with it. It has featured on the soundtrack of all kinds of TV and cinema projects, including The Crown and Bridgerton. Recomposed topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK, Germany and the US, and to date has amassed more than 450m streams. When creative work leaves your desk, it takes on a life of its own. Watch the video for Spring 1 from The New Four Seasons The result, 2012’s Recomposed, succeeded in letting me encounter The Four Seasons afresh and laying the ghost of many hours of enforced listening to tinny 30-second loops of Spring while on hold waiting to speak to my bank. That’s very much the way post-minimal music and electronic dance music operates, and I found plenty of touch points that enabled me to dive into his material in a natural, sculptural and architectural way. Vivaldi’s work is very pattern-based, and he generates his effects by juxtaposing contrasting kinds of material. The best way to do that, I decided, would be to take a voyage through Vivaldi’s landscape and to make new discoveries there.Īs I looked into the score I saw there was a natural meeting point between his baroque language and my own. ![]() I needed to resolve the love/hate relationship I had with the work – call it an exorcism – and reclaim Vivaldi’s original as a musical object rather than a sonic irritant. Ticket Prices – £42, £36, £29, £24 + £1.Netflix’s Bridgerton, one of the many shows and events that Richter’s Recomposed has soundtracked. This duration of this event will be 2 hours and there will be an interval. With their numerous recordings reaching great critical acclaim, the ensemble is continually regarded as one of the finest groups in Europe since its founding in 1991.īach – Concerto for Violin & Oboe in C minor UK based chamber orchestra London Concertante regularly performs up to and over one hundred concerts per year, making it the busiest ensemble of its kind in the country. If you’re looking for a romantic candlelit experience and want to enjoy some classical music greats from the baroque period in the majestic setting of Winchester Cathedral, then this is the concert for you! Enjoy classical music greats from the baroque period by romantic candlelight in the majestic nave of Winchester Cathedral. ![]()
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