He notices that his own taste in repeating patterns doesn’t mesh with the apparently similar patterns in Vivaldi. Ivan Hewett of the Telegraph gave the album a very positive review, stating:Īs you would expect of a composer who once studied with the great modernist Luciano Berio, Richter is very self-aware. Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons received widespread acclaim from contemporary classical music critics. The US launch concert in New York at Le Poisson Rouge was recorded by NPR and streamed live. The album topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK, Germany, and the US.
Richter's recomposed version of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons was premiered in the UK at the Barbican Centre on 31 October 2012, performed by the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by André de Ridder, with violinist Daniel Hope the soloist. Richter recorded a new version of the Four Seasons in 2022 alongside violinist Elena Urioste and the Chineke! Orchestra and released it as The New Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed. Humphreys recorded using a violin from the circle of Peter Guarneri of Venice, made in 1727. The Rubicon Classics recording features soloist Fenella Humphreys and the Covent Garden Sinfonia, conducted by Ben Palmer. On the album, Hope plays the " Ex-Lipinski" violin, an instrument made by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù in 1742 and made available to the violinist by a German family who asked to remain anonymous.
The Deutsche Grammophon album was played by the violinist Daniel Hope and the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin symphony orchestra, and conducted by André de Ridder. The piece is a complete recomposition and reinterpretation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.Īlthough Richter said that he had discarded 75 percent of Vivaldi's original material, the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music. Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons is a composition that features on a 2012 album by contemporary classical composer Max Richter, released on Augon Universal Classics and Jazz (Germany), a division of Universal Music Group, and Deutsche Grammophon, and further recorded by Fenella Humphreys and released on Rubicon Classics in 2019.
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