![]() ![]() “from the perspective of somebody who’s heard minimal music, who’s heard electronica, who’s heard post-rock. While in the liner notes Max Richter acknowledges the influence of Led Zeppelin, The Beach Boys or The Beatles, the concerto was also reworked Offer Max Richter: Recomposed - The Four Seasons, Vasks, Pärt Fenella Humphreys (violin) Covent Garden Sinfonia, Ben Palmer Humphreys mines the repetitive melodies for subtelties of colour, rather than drama. ![]() What makes the project really interesting is the revisit of a 1725 piece with the hindsight of 287 years of music and popular culture. “I decided to rewrite the score on a note level which meant re-recording it with an orchestra I went through it, picking my favourite bits and turning those up and making new objects out of those The piece is pretty radical with the material, I’ve probably thrown away three quarters of the notes, but I’ve kept the gestures and the shape and the texture and the dynamics of Vivaldi.” Max Richter In Recomposed by Max Richter Vivaldis The Four Seasons, Max Richter considered the Italian composers musical DNA as omni-present in the reworking of the. Released at the end of 2012, Recomposed by Max Richter is neither another interpretation of the Four Seasons nor a remix but a rework of the original piece based on Vivaldi’s score. ![]()
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