Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): More Information: Brilliant Classics Spotify: Brilliant Classics Facebook: Composer: Antonio Vivaldi Artists: La Magnifica Comunitá, Enrico Casazza (violin and concert master) Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is one of the world’s most popular and widely recorded collections of music, a set that instantly became an international hit after it was first published at part of the composer’s Op.8 in 1725. No doubt it was its imitative directness – extra musical occurrences/phenomena evoked in an extremely suggestive manner and even written into the score, such as ‘the barking dog’ or ‘the drunkards’ sleep’ etc. – that caused such as sensation in its time, effortlessly bridging the gap between the salons of