Conductor – Dorin Frandeş
Programme – Antonio Vivaldi – Symphony in sol minor – The four seasons
Soloist – Dorel Baicu, flute

“The four seasons” is Antonio Vivaldi’s most famous musical work, counted among the most popular Baroque masterpieces. Composed in 1820 and published five years later, “Le quattro stagioni” leads the public through all four seasons, transposed in an evocative music of great artistic value.

The 4 violin concertos differ from one another, each presenting musical and stylistic particularities which suggest certain features of the “described” season – from the pizzicato of the high chords, driving at the petty, frozen rain in winter, to the “storm” at the end of the concerto dedicated to summer, which seems to imitate thunders.

Classical music lovers and connoisseurs regard Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” as the peak of the master’s art – and rightfully so. This masterpiece revived and renewed the “concerto” as a musical genre and has stood as a perpetual source of inspiration for the next generations of composers.