Four Seasons Beyond Vivaldi

Four Seasons Beyond Vivaldi

Apple Music Classical

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, a quartet of violin concertos completed around 1720, even today dominate season-themed music. Here, however, we take you on something of an alternative seasonal journey, from composer Alexey Shor’s violin-fuelled spring in modern Manhattan to 17th-century Thomas Simpson’s cheerful winter dance scored for viol consort. There are works by Piazzolla, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky and Spohr, as well as vocal music evoking the beauty of nature and rural life courtesy of Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons and Vaughan Williams’s cantata for women’s voices and orchestra, Folk Songs of the Four Seasons.

No. 10, October "Autumn Song"

Khatia Buniatishvili

4:55

VIII. Introduction to Winter (Original Version from The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3) [Arr. Sir Simon Rattle] (Live)

Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra

4:10

Spring

3:23

Ouverture D'eté Opus 28

Pierre Bartholomée, Orchestre Philharmonique de Lièage Communauté Française, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

7:19

Autumn

Veronique Mathieu, Stephanie Chua

2:30

No. 1, White Scenery

Olga Jegunova

5:51

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

5:42

Memory of Summer

Timo Alakotila, Juha Kangas, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra

5:00

Le mythe du printemps, poème symphonique

Silveer Van Den Broeck, Vrt Philharmonic Orchestra, Joost Gils

10:29

No. 2, L'été

2:28

D'un matin de printemps

Orchestre de Picardie, Arie van Beek

5:10

Spring 0 (2012)

André de Ridder, Max Richter, Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin

0:42

Spring 1 (2012)

Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, Max Richter, André de Ridder, Daniel Hope

2:31

Allegro di molto

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra

6:22

L'Automne

James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

9:00

II. Winter Landscape

Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

4:18

No. 9, Waltz of the Snowflakes

Berlin Philharmonic, Libera, Sir Simon Rattle

6:40

Spring

3:06

Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Philharmonia Orchestra, Julia Bullock, Christian Reif

14:45

Summer. Largo

Alfred Walter, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

4:58

Der Herbst: No. 20, Terzett mit Chor - "So lohnet die Natur den Fleiss"

London Symphony Chorus, Colin Davis, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams, London Symphony Orchestra, Miah Persson

7:00

The Augurs of Spring - Dance of the Young Girls

Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna

2:59

Game of Abduction

Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna

1:08

Spring Rounds

MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis

4:04

Summer Song

Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset

2:25

L'automne

François Leleux, Jean-François Verdier, Sebastien van Kuijk, Orchestre Victor Hugo

9:58

III. Rondes de printemps

Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony

7:19

II. Der Einsame im Herbst

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Dame Sarah Connolly, Vladimir Jurowski

9:11

IV. Epilogue

Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Okko Kamu

3:35

No. 6 Andante Grazioso in A, MWV U 161 - "Spring Song"

Daniel Barenboim

2:06

Movement IV

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica

7:05

II. Last Spring

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi

5:30

III. Imitation of Old Poem: Long Autumn Night

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Liping Zhang, Long Yu

6:07

No. 2. Sommarsang (Summer Song)

Okko Kamu, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

2:16

II. Larghetto

Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin

6:24

No. 16, Winter Fairy

André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra

1:14

IV. Autumn

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

12:08

Spring Idyll (Lentedag/Journée printanière)

BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra

12:57

Swedish Rhapsodie No. 1, Op. 19 - "Midsommarvaka"

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

11:38

Automne

Olivier Pelmoine, Sara Chenal

2:25

III. Winter (Cadenza)

6:00

Symphony No. 1, Op. 43 "Le printemps"

Darius Milhaud, Luxemburg Radio Symphony Orchestra

3:32

Largo from Concerto No. 2 "Les Plaisirs de L'Eté"

Dorothee Oberlinger, Ensemble 1700

2:33

III. Rustle of Spring

Christian Ihle Hadland, Bard Bratlie

2:55

III. L'Ottobrata

John Wilson, Sinfonia of London

7:51

I. Reveries of a Winter Journey. Allegro tranquillo

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski

11:20

V. Der Trunkene im Frühling (The Drunkard in Spring)

Vienna Philharmonic, Jonathan Nott, Jonas Kaufmann

4:25

I. Fan

The Sirius Viols

6:10

II. Allegro

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic

2:42

Vesna, Op. 13

Marek Štilec, Czech National Symphony Orchestra

13:03

Summer Night on the River

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner

5:13

Golden Autumn

4:37

II. Invierno Porteño

Arabella Steinbacher, Dzeraldas Bidva, Munich Chamber Orchestra

7:45

May Song

English Voices, Sir David Willcocks, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble

2:47

I. Allegro vivace assai

8:32

I - Spring

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

5:39

Summertime / A Woman Is a Sometime Thing

Akira Eguchi, Gil Shaham

3:32

Gloominess of Autumn

Juha Kangas, Iikka Kotaja, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra

3:37

Für Erwachsenere: 38. Winterszeit I

2:17

IV. Winter

Duncan Honeybourne

2:11