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The four seasons composition4/22/2023 Spring is a solo concerto with 3 movements: quick, slow, quick. (1) The first concerto of the Four Seasons is Spring, describing its freshness and beauty. So the Four Seasons is a combination of the arts of music, painting and poetry. In Germany it was awarded the ECHO Klassik in the catagory „Klassik ohne Grenzen“. The Four Seasons were inspired by four paintings of the seasons by the artist Marco Ricci. The album of Daniel Hope playing Max Richter's re-composition topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK, Germany and the US, as well as the US Classical Billboard Charts. I have three favourite seasons winter,summer and spring. Then, out of these shifting sonic tides comes an ensemble of violins – playing fragments of the world's most familiar concerto, the “Spring” from Vivaldi's Four Seasons – but not as we know it… “A subtle and often moving piece of work”, as The Daily Telegraph states, “the field of the classical remix has finally become interesting.” Max Richter's re-composition starts with a shimmer of something strange and soft, an ambient mist of strings that's both electronic and acoustic. This live performance of Richter's new Four Seasons is set in a former building of the Neptun shipyards in the docks of Rostock. Joshua Hollin, Commercial Music Composition FAU Alumni, received the Golden Ticket on ABC Season 4 of American Idol FAU Galleries upcoming exhibition: SouthXeast. In this special project, the British-German new-music composer Max Richter and the British-South African Violinist Daniel Hope teamed up to transform one of the most famous and most often-played works of Classical Music into something new: the re-composition of Vivaldi's masterpiece, The Four Seasons.
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