Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Studio album by Max Richter
Released August 31, 2012
Recorded March 12, 2012
March 13, 2012
Studio B-Sharp
(Berlin, Germany)
Genre
Length 43:58
Label
Producer Max Richter
Max Richter chronology
Infra
(2010)		 Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
(2012)		 Sleep
(2015)
Alternative cover
2014 Deutsche Grammophon cover
Alternative cover
2014 Deutsche Grammophon cover

Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons is the 2012 album by neo-classical composer Max Richter, released on August 31, 2012 on Universal Classics and Jazz (Germany), a division of Universal Music Group, and Deutsche Grammophon.[1] The album is a complete recomposition and reinterpretation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

Although Richter said that he had discarded 75% of Vivaldi's original material,[2] the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music.[3]

The album is a collaboration between Max Richter, Daniel Hope, the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin symphony orchestra, and André de Ridder.

On the album, Daniel Hope plays the "Ex-Lipinski" violin, an instrument made by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù in 1742 and made available to the violinist by an anonymous German family.

Release

Richter’s recomposed version of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons was premiered in the UK at the Barbican Centre on 31 October 2012, performed by the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by André de Ridder and with violinist Daniel Hope.[4] The album topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK, Germany and the US.[5] The US launch concert in New York at Le Poisson Rouge was recorded by NPR and streamed.

Critical reception

Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons received widespread acclaim from contemporary classical music critics.

Ivan Hewett of The Telegraph gave the album a very positive review, stating, "As you would expect of a composer who once studied with the great modernist Luciano Berio, Richter is very self-aware. He notices that his own taste in repeating patterns doesn’t mesh with the apparently similar patterns in Vivaldi. They obey a different logic, and the friction between them generates a fascinatingly ambiguous colour. Richter teases out and heightens this colour, sometimes with Vivaldi uppermost, sometimes himself. It is a subtle and often moving piece of work, which suggests that after years of tedious disco and trance versions of Mozart, the field of the classical remix has finally become interesting."[6]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Max Richter. 

No. Title Length
1. "Spring 0"   0:42
2. "Spring 1"   2:31
3. "Spring 2"   3:19
4. "Spring 3"   3:09
5. "Summer 1"   4:11
6. "Summer 2"   3:59
7. "Summer 3"   5:01
8. "Autumn 1"   5:42
9. "Autumn 2"   3:08
10. "Autumn 3"   1:45
11. "Winter 1"   3:01
12. "Winter 2"   2:51
13. "Winter 3"   4:39
Total length:
 43:58
Electronic Soundscapes by Max Richter
No. Title Length
14. "Shadow 1"   3:53
15. "Shadow 2"   2:30
16. "Shadow 3"   3:33
17. "Shadow 4"   2:33
18. "Shadow 5"   3:01
Total length:
 59:28

Personnel

Main personnel

  • Max Richter – composer, mixing, producer, quotation author
  • André de Ridder – conductor
  • Daniel Hope – primary artist, violin [solo]
  • Raphael Alpermann – harpsichord
  • Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin – orchestra
  • Alexander Kahl – cello
  • David Drost – cello
  • Nerina Mancini – cello
  • Ying Guo – cello
  • Ernst-Martin Schmidt – viola
  • Felix Korinth – viola
  • Katja Plagens – viola
  • Matthias Benker – viola
  • Alicia Lagger – violin [first]
  • Christoph Kulicke – violin [first]
  • Karoline Bestehorn – violin [first]
  • Sayako Kusaka – violin [first], concertmaster
  • Cornelia Dill – violin [second]
  • Jana Krämer – violin [second]
  • Johannes Jahnel – violin [second]
  • Ulrike Töppen – violin [second]
  • Ronith Mues – harp
  • Georg Schwärsky – double bass
  • Jorge Villar Paredes – double bass
  • Sandor Tar – double bass

Additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ Recomposed by Max Richter - Antonio Vivaldi - Die vier Jahreszeiten - The Four Seasons: Deutsche Grammophon Catalog
  2. ↑ "Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons". Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Tania Halban (28 November 2012). "Recomposed or refragmented?". Retrieved 1 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Max Richter: Vivaldi Recomposed". 31 October 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "RECOMPOSED | Chart-Erfolg für Max Richters "Vivaldi Recomposed" in den USA | News". Klassikakzente.de. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  6. ↑ The Telegraph: Vivaldi remixed: classical music reinvents itself
  7. ↑
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