Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino. The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works.
They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione ( The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). These were composed around 1718−1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. The Four Seasons ( Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. Join me for music of the classical guitar on Fretworks Saturday evening at 7 and Wednesday at 7 on Classical 101.Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. Jerome Ducharme, the winner of the 2005 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, plays Three Spanish Pieces from 1954 by Joaquin Rodrigo. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet has the atmospheric Cuban Landscape with Rain by the renowned contemporary composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer. Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, who will be featured on Fretworks in a couple of months, performs the work on her CD Intimate Barrios. Other music will include the Bach-inspired La Catedral by the great Paraguayan guitarist-composer Agustin Barrios. 2 in E arranged for guitar and string quartet, played by Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang and the Elias Quartet.
March 21 is also the 330th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, so we’ll hear his Violin Concerto No. For the first day of Spring on Fretworks, I’ll have the appropriate movement from Antonio Vivaldi’s most famous work, The Four Seasons, in an arrangement for three guitars performed by the Amsterdam Guitar Trio.
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