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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
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The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino. The inspiration for the concertos is not the countryside around Mantua, as initially supposed, where Vivaldi was living at the time, since according to Karl Heller they could have been written as early as 1716–1717, while Vivaldi was engaged with the court of Mantua only in 1718.
They were a revolution in musical conception: Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires.
Unusually for the period, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying sonnets (possibly written by the composer himself) that elucidated what it was in the spirit of each season that his music was intended to evoke. The concerti therefore stand as one of the earliest and most detailed examples of what would come to be called program music—in other words, music with a narrative element. Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. For example, in the middle section of "Spring", when the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be heard in the viola section. The music is elsewhere similarly evocative of other natural sounds. Vivaldi divided each concerto into three movements (fast–slow–fast), and, likewise, each linked sonnet into three sections.
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July 27, 29, and 30, 2024
VIVALDI: The Four Seasons
VITALI / Chaconne
PACHELBEL / Canon
Orchestra CLASSIK Ensemble
David Braccini, solo violin
Doors close at 7:55 PM
August 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, and 16, 2024
VIVALDI: The Four Seasons ALBINONI / Adagio PACHELBEL / Canon
Orchestra Les SOLISTES FRANÇAIS
Paul Rouger, solo violin
Doors close at 7:55 PM
August 18, 21, 23, 26, 29, 31, 2024, and September 2, 2024
VIVALDI: The Four Seasons HAENDEL / Sarabande PACHELBEL / Canon
Orchestra PARIS Classik
Bertrand Cervera, solo violinist of the Orchestre National de France
Doors close at 7:55 PM
September 6 and 9, 2024
VIVALDI / The Four Seasons ALBINONI / Adagio - PACHELBEL / Canon
Orchestra Les SOLISTES FRANÇAIS
Paul Rouger, solo violin
Doors close at 7:55 PM
September 13 and 16, 2024
VIVALDI / The Four Seasons HAENDEL / Sarabande PACHELBEL / Canon
Orchestra PARIS Classik
Bertrand Cervera, solo violinist of the Orchestre National de France
Doors close at 7:55 PM
September 20 and 30, 2024
VIVALDI: The Four Seasons PUGNANI / Introduction & Allegro PACHELBEL / Canon
PARIS SOLIST Orchestra
Frédéric Laroque, principal solo violinist of the Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Paris
Doors close at 7:55 PM
September 23 and 28, 2024
VIVALDI: The Four Seasons VITALI / Chaconne PACHELBEL / Canon
Orchestra CLASSIK Ensemble
David Braccini, solo violin
Doors close at 7:55 PM
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he Sainte-Chapelle (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t ʃapɛl], Holy Chapel) is a royal medieval Gothic chapel, located near the Palais de la Cité, on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France.
Begun some time after 1239 and consecrated on 26 April 1248,[1] the Sainte-Chapelle is considered among the highest achievements of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture. Its erection was commissioned by King Louis IX of France to house his collection of Passion Relics, including Christ's Crown of Thorns - one of the most important relics in medieval Christendom.
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