#3128: A New Look at the Four Seasons, Pt. 1
For this New Sounds, we’ll take a new look at the Four Seasons - not the Vivaldi work, but instead what it has inspired. There are lots of other composers who have riffed off of that theme, say - Thomas Wilbrandt, Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, and Mark O'Connor, to name a few.
We’ll hear "The American Four Seasons" by Philip Glass, structured like a violin concerto, and it doesn't tell the listener which season goes with which movement. Plus, Mark O’Connor’s “The American Seasons,” and more.
PROGRAM #3128, The Four Seasons, New Music-Style with Violin (First aired on 10/19/2010)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Thomas Wilbrandt; Philharmonia Orchestra, |
The Electric V |
Vivaldi: Spring Sketches of Spring [17:00] |
London 425206 |
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Philip Glass; London Philharmonic cond. by Marin Alsop; Robert McDuffie, violin |
Glass: Violin Concerto No.2 - The American Four Seasons
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Glass: Violin Concerto No. 2 - The American Four Seasons: Mvmt II [10:28] |
Orange Mountain Music 0072 |
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Mark O’Connor, The Metamorphosen Chamber Orchsetra, cond. by Scott Yoo |
The American Seasons |
Spring [7:39] |
Sony 89660 |
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Gidon Kremer / Kremerata Baltica |
Eight Seasons |
Astor Piazzolla, “Primavera portena” Spring in Buenos Aires [5:43] |
Nonesuch 79568 |
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Philip Glass; London Philharmonic cond. by Marin Alsop; Robert McDuffie, violin |
Glass: Violin Concerto No.2 - The American Four Seasons
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Glass: Violin Concerto No. 2 - The American Four Seasons: Mvmt III [5:56] |
See above. |
