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For example, Vivaldi's celebrated Four Seasons, made up of four violin concertos (not sequentially numbered because they are in different keys), and his famous lute concerto are named and numbered as follows: Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269 – "La primavera" (Spring) Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315 – "L'estate" (Summer)
Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. 8, 1725). The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.
Alexander Malofeev was born to Dimitri Alexandrovitch Malofeev, an engineer, and medical practitioner Lyudmila Borisovna Malofeeva. He has an older sister and a younger brother. He began studying piano at the age of five. [1] By the age of seven, he became interested in the music of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev ...
Antonio Vivaldi wrote a set of concerti for violin, strings and continuo, Op. 12, in 1729. Concerto No. 1 in G minor, RV 317; Allegro Largo Allegro. Concerto No. 2 in D minor, RV 244; Allegro Larghetto Allegro. Concerto No. 3 in D Major, RV 124; Allegro Grave Allegro. Concerto No. 4 in C Major, RV 173; Largo spiccato – Allegro Largo Allegro
Voices of Music was founded in 2007 by artistic codirectors, and musician-scholars, Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler. [3] [4] The ensemble performs music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Arcangelo Corelli, Claudio Monteverdi, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi, among others.
Description: Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer) — movement 3: presto from The Four Seasons Live, unedited performance — 2m:38.960s. Wiedemann Recital Hall, Wichita State University
The Concerto in C major, RV 559, is a concerto grosso by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, completed in 1740. The concerto's instrumentation is for two oboes, two clarinets, string section and harpsichord. It is one of two of Vivaldi's concerti grossi for this instrumentation, the other being RV 560. [1] The movements are: 1. Larghetto ...
The piece is a complete recomposition and reinterpretation of Vivaldi's violin concertos The Four Seasons. Although Richter said that he had discarded 75 percent of Vivaldi's original material, [ 1 ] the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music .