The Seasons (Haydn) Heartz, writing near the end of a massive three-volume account of the Classical era, writes "The Hunting and Drinking choruses first led me to study Haydn's music more extensively beginning some forty years ago ... no music has elated me more in old age than "The Seasons"." Michael Steinberg writes that the work "ensure[s] Haydn's premiere place with Titian, Michelangelo and Turner, Mann and Goethe, Verdi and Stravinsky, as one of the rare artists to whom old age brings the gift of ever bolder invention." Opinions vary as to the nature of the relationship between "The Creation" and "The Seasons"
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) recording: Paul Shoemaker wrote about this recording: Nigel Kennedy's 1989 recording of "The Four Seasons" with the English Chamber Orchestra sold over copies, becoming one of the best-selling classical works ever. Gil Shaham and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra recorded "The Four Seasons" as well as a music video for the first movement of "Winter" that was featured regularly on The Weather Channel in the mid-1990s. "The World's Encyclopedia of Recorded Music" in 1952 cites only two recordings of "The Four Seasons" – by Molinari and Kaufman. , approximately 1,000 different recorded versions have been made since Campoli's in 1939. Classical