Fall back in love with The Four Seasons by immersing himself in Vivaldi's music, and by allowing it to be filtered by his own compositional style. Richter came up with a very creative and novel solution to his problem.

But then over the years I heard it in contexts which didn't make sense to me. Ringtones, elevators, shopping centres. 'I fell in love with the Vivaldi original when I was a child, and was enchanted by this beautiful music. Secondly, the idea for this project came to Max Richter in 2012, from a place of love. Vivaldi music has always been special to him, but had lost its sheen. They were pragmatists and didn't seem in any way to put their own music, or that written by others, on a pedestal.

Too much of a good thing?įirst of all, reworking old music has a proud tradition. Max Richter's take on Vivaldi's Four Seasons has been called all of these things. And if the idea of what he did with the music makes you positively nauseous then let me explain a few things in Richter's defence. Is it wrong to take a well-loved piece of classical music, and rework it to make it more up to date? An act of reverence and genius, or vandalism, sacrilege? Controversial Concertos

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