"Who wrote the violin concertos ""The Four Seasons""?"
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) The Four Seasons () is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. They were written around 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional violin concerti, as ("The Contest Between Harmony and Invention"). "The Four Seasons" is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows motifs from a Sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera "Il Giustino". The inspiration for the concertos was probably
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