#3382: Music That Revolves Around Poetry

New Sounds | Jan 1, 2014

This New Sounds offers a new take on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, with the composer’s own poems in new musical settings by Uri Caine and a modern English translation sung by Theo Bleckmann. Originally, Vivaldi wrote that most famous set of four concertos based on his Italian sonnets about each of the seasons. Listen to the re-working, along with other poetry set to music, including settings from Korean poetry by Sunny Kim. There's also music by Harold Budd and Steve Reich, to name a few.

PROGRAM # 3382, Music that Revolves Around Poetry (First aired on 9/24/2012)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Forma Antiqua Aitor Hevia, violin with Theo Bleckmann & Uri Caine	Antonia Vivaldi: The Four Seasons	Caine: Spring [4:20] Summer [2:55] Autumn [2:55] Winter [4:13] Vivaldi: L’Inverno – Allegro [3:19]	Winter & Winter 910185 www.winterandwinter.com/
Sunny Kim	Painter’s Eye	Ink Silence [6:19]	Sunnyside SSC 1333 www.sunnysiderecords.com
Harold Budd with Zeitgeist	She Is A Phantom	The False Attribution [1:36] Breathless…I [1:39] And then I alone am alone. [4:41] Breathless…II [1:22]	New Albion NA066 Out of print. Try downloading from Emusic.com, Amazon.com, or iTunes.
Steve Reich \| Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, Ossia	Tehillim, The Desert Music	Desert Music: IV [3:03] Desert Music: V [9:38]	Cantaloupe Music CA21009 cantaloupemusic.com

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