#Max richter vivaldi series#

The biggest challenge for the British composer was to вЂњcreate a new score, an experimental hybrid, that constantly references вЂVivaldiвЂ™ but also вЂRichterвЂ™ and that is current but simultaneously preserves the original spirit of this great work.вЂќ Richter consequently used a range of different techniques, when constructing this piece. I hear it in the supermarket regularly, am confronted with it in adverts or hear it as muzak when on hold.вЂќ Richter takes this recognizable sound into the present and gives a new audience access to it whilst also respecting the original piece and its history of interpretation, so that the discerned classical music listener can enjoy his Vivaldi Recomposed just as much.

Richter was fascinated by the 1725 composition because вЂњThe Four Seasons is an omnipresent piece of music and like no other part of our musical landscape. The composer will be joined by Ensemble LPR and violinist Daniel Hope. Wordless Music and Le Poisson Rouge will present RichterвЂ™s latest work at Le Poisson Rouge on 19th and 20th December. Richter is bringing Recomposed to New York City with two live performances.

#Max richter vivaldi series#

He is the first in the series to employ an existing score, вЂinscribeвЂ™ his new composition into VivaldiвЂ™s and record a вЂnewвЂ™ version of a familiar work, thus creating a new piece of music. In contrast to previous participants, such as Matthew Herbert or Moritz von Oswald & Carl Craig, who reworked recordings from the extensive Deutsche Grammophon catalogue, Richter actually вЂrecomposedвЂ™ Antonio VivaldiвЂ™s The Four Seasons. However, RichterвЂ™s approach differs fundamentally from the preceding releases. The idea of recomposing and re-processing musical works was common practice in BachвЂ™s time and the project presents an exciting opportunity to make favorite classics relevant to a wider audience. Samuelsen's violin sometimes slipped under the mix at crucial moments and kitschy add-on melodies didn't always soar as they should have.British composer Max Richter is now part of Deutsche GrammophonвЂ™s acclaimed Recomposed series, in which contemporary artists are invited to re-work a traditional piece of music.

Another was the chop and change of time signatures that announced Autumn, energetically led by soloist Mari Samuelsen.Д«ut it's tough competing with the original state-of-the-art Deutsche Grammophon recording of the piece. While the burr of electronics became an irritant very quickly, cheeky musical pleasures offered some compensation, such as Summer coming to an end by riffing away on a tune picked from the middle of its finale, bubbling over chintzy harmonies. This iconic score has survived everything from electronic takeovers to exotic instrumental bands but no revisiting has been anywhere near as radical as Richter's. The work that drew a good-sized crowd was doubtless his Vivaldi Recomposed, a clever and provocative take on The Four Seasons. English composer Max Richter guiding Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra through two hours of his music was a less immersive and more physically comfortable experience than the eight hours of camp-stretcher lullaby offered in his mammoth Sleep two nights previously.