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Richter four seasons6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() This time, Richter has worked with period instruments and kept the arrangements tighter and less luxurious, making the music sound even closer to the original than it did in 2012. The New Four Seasons, his return to the piece, offers yet another approach. His version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons presented a “re-composition” of the Italian baroque composers themes which, when added up, amounted to the same thing and yet something else - confusing, at times, remarkably beautiful more often than not. A great example of this early phase was Infra, a fourty minute long composition which sounded like Philipp Glass waking from- and lapsing into fearful fever dreams.Īlready two years before Infra was released, Richter had published another major work which presented his take on a popular form of the classical tradition, the variation. Richter had an ingenious way of implanting well-known tropes into unfamiliar soil, of creating concepts that didn't just make for a nice press release, but were actually intriguing to listen to. ![]() But, thankfully, music isn't played out on paper. On paper, these brought nothing new to the table. His first pieces were, in a way, personal interpretations of the minimalist style. Max Richter has always had an interesting relationship with the classical tradition and its century-long tug of war between the familiar and the new. To find out more about his thoughts on music, read our Max Richter interview. Occupation: Pianists, performers (Gould, Kempff), composer (Richter)Ĭurrent release: Max Richter's The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed is out via Deutsche Grammophon. Artists: Glenn Gould, Wilhelm Kempff, Max Richter ![]()
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