MUSIC Much-loved concertos clouded with melancholy*




Recomposed by Max RichterVivaldi: The Four Seasons
Deutsche Grammophon Listen online on YouTube
Reviewed by David James
 
Re-imaginings are not common in modern classical music. For most of the first half of the twentieth century there was a feverish pursuit of the new, endeavours such as the tuneless use of atonality (known as serialism).
When the possibilities for the novel were largely exhausted – harmonic experimentation is, in the end, a…

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