On 28^th April, 2014, an album was released that we thought would be suitable to listen to during this summer: for it is an atypical music – it is classical music and yet it is not; it is rather a form of contemporary art of sound that is very stimulating and that enjoys a great success among the audience.

The album is called Recomposed by Max Richter – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and it was released by the well-known record company Deutsche Grammophon, which is also proud to have signed an exclusive contract with Max Richter, a 48-year-old British composer, who has had quite a big influence over the last 10 years.

The first edition of the Four Seasons recomposed by Max Richter was released in 2012 and was a great sales success – in April 2014, the second version of this work was released. Furthermore, another guarantee of the quality of the material is the performance: violinist Daniel Hope as a soloist, together with the Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra in Berlin, conducted by André de Ridder.

While listening to the Seasons recomposed by Max Richter, I thought of Orpheus and Eurydice, a performance I saw on the stage of the Bulandra Theatre years ago: an opera performance – meditation on the original composition signed by Gluck. We find something similar in Max Richter’s music – we recognize the main themes of Vivaldi’s Seasons, but we know it is a totally different thing: it is rather the reflection of this music in the consciousness of an extremely talented contemporary composer.

It is hard to put into words what exactly it is that brings magic to the music, so I choose to offer you Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, reinterpreted by Max Richter with no other explanations. I am sure that this music will speak to you as it did to me: about the contemporary man who is fond of Vivaldi.