VIVALDI Winter concerto | Nicolas BALDEYROU clarinet ensemble

Dear friends, I hope you’re well ! Today’s video was really lot of fun to record. You know I love many music styles, and baroque music is one of my favorite, especially with this marvelous boxwood Légende in A that I use to get a period clarinet color and a very smooth response. I chose to play the 1st movement of Vivaldi Winter concerto RV297 from The Four Seasons, written on this poem (we still don’t know who’s the author, maybe Vivaldi himself ?): To tremble from cold in the icy snow, In the harsh breath of a horrid wind, To run, stamping one’s feet every moment, Our teeth chattering in the extreme cold. Regardless of the sonnets’ authorship, The Four Seasons can be classified as program music, instrumental music intended to evoke something extra-musical, and an art form which Vivaldi was determined to prove sophisticated enough to be taken seriously.