Episode #3128
A New Look at the Four Seasons, Pt. 1
Saturday, February 16, 2013
For this New Sounds, we’ll take a new look at the Four Seasons - not the Vivaldi work, but instead what it has inspired. There are lots of other composers who have riffed off of that theme, say - Thomas Wilbrandt, Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, and Mark O'Connor, to name a few.
We’ll hear "The American Four Seasons" by Philip Glass, structured like a violin concerto, and it doesn't tell the listener which season goes with which movement. Plus, Mark O’Connor’s “The American Seasons,” and more.
PROGRAM #3128, The Four Seasons, New Music-Style with Violin (First aired on 10/19/2010)
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Thomas Wilbrandt; Philharmonia Orchestra, |
The Electric V |
Vivaldi: Spring Sketches of Spring [17:00] |
London 425206 |
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Philip Glass; London Philharmonic cond. by Marin Alsop; Robert McDuffie, violin |
Glass: Violin Concerto No.2 - The American Four Seasons
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Glass: Violin Concerto No. 2 - The American Four Seasons: Mvmt II [10:28] |
Orange Mountain Music 0072 |
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Mark O’Connor, The Metamorphosen Chamber Orchsetra, cond. by Scott Yoo |
The American Seasons |
Spring [7:39] |
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Gidon Kremer / Kremerata Baltica |
Eight Seasons |
Astor Piazzolla, “Primavera portena” Spring in Buenos Aires [5:43] |
Nonesuch 79568 |
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Philip Glass; London Philharmonic cond. by Marin Alsop; Robert McDuffie, violin |
Glass: Violin Concerto No.2 - The American Four Seasons
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Glass: Violin Concerto No. 2 - The American Four Seasons: Mvmt III [5:56] |
See above. |
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Comments [1]
Dear John, Looking at the WNYC programme related to Vivaldi, you might like to know that my violin concerto for stings alone (subtitled "The Bulls of Bashan") was commissioned by an English orchestra called The Primavera Orchestra and hence has several overt references to Vivaldi's Four Seasons - and one or two covert ones as well!!
All the best
Gavin
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