I love Vivaldi’s music. His lesser-known sacred works had a big influence on Bach, too. What I hate, however, is calling somebody up and getting the v/m greeting, “Please enjoy the music while your ...

Of course, the challenges posed by such a project are obvious. There's a fine line when tackling the tricky work of tinkering with pieces that are the stuff of history and have thrived intact through ...

Composer Max Richter has done a brave thing for any artist in any medium: He's messed with a classic, specifically, Vivaldi's four violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. He has a new album simply ...

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Chamber music, classical music’s third branch (after the symphonic and operatic repertoire), is the least-known genre in the classical music universe. And it has the unfortunate reputation of being ...

Max Richter grew tired of Vivaldi's warhorse The Four Seasons. But instead of writing off the piece forever, Richter rewrote it. He blended... Can't take another moment of Vivaldi's ubiquitous Four ...

Rediscover centuries-old classics in a completely new light, with two works that infuse music of the Baroque period with shimmering contemporary flourishes. Following the festive splash of one of ...

Francisco Fullana is, to my knowledge, the first violinist to record Max Richter’s ingenious Four Seasons Recomposed since the initial outing with Daniel Hope on Deutsche Grammphon (among my favorite ...

What is known as a cover in pop music -- a composer and/or performer making a song his or her own -- is ancient history in classical music. In medieval and Renaissance times, the chant tune on which ...

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Composer Max Richter's new album takes on Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Richter says that as a child, he loved The Four Seasons. But as he grew older, that passion faded. "As a child, I fell in love with it ...

Can't take another moment of Vivaldi's ubiquitous Four Seasons? Neither could Max Richter, a London-based composer who deftly blurs the lines between the classical and electronic worlds. Long ago he ...