Do you ever get the feeling that classical music is not all that “user friendly”?
What if one simple purchase could open up an entire world of sound and culture you never knew existed?
For example, what does a former Swedish queen have to do with this piece? (hint: quite a bit, it turns out . . . though not directly . . . )
There are things almost everyone wants to know: Who’s made the best recordings?
What are you missing if you don’t hear any old ones?
What kind of legacy has this music had in recent years?
What 18th Century arrangement was a hit in the decades after Vivaldi died?
Can knowing the background to The Four Seasons enhance your appreciation for what you hear?
What ideas widely believed about this music turn out to be wrong? Do you hold any?
Most of us live in places that have four seasons, that is, somewhere temperate: not tropical and not polar.
Depending on where you are, you might be in a place where people joke about getting all four seasons in a single day.
Melbourne, Australia perhaps . . . somewhat notoriously!
Even people who live where there aren’t four seasons appreciate the variety in this music. That’s pretty understandable.
But you know what?
Most people who think they appreciate The Four Seasons have only scratched the surface.
There is much more to this set of concertos than most people realize.
How do you find out how much you don’t know?
How do you establish just what it might be that you’re missing?
Where do you go looking for uncommon insight about a very common piece?
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Some of what you’ll learn has to do with context. Of course it’s important to cover recordings since there are so many. And then it’s necessary to have a look at the legacy of The Four Seasons. Since it was written, this music certainly has taken on a life of its own!
We’re going to start with context.
Our context varies according to time and place. We all came from somewhere, back when we were born, and then there’s where we are now . . .
When you’re listening to classical music, a lot of it has a history longer than ours . . .
All classical music had a context, and often it was different from ours too. There were trends and ideas that were all around people then and there.
But not so today.
Which is why it helps so much to appreciate classical music not only by listening to it, but also by discovering more about its context.
There’s a stronger connection between this music and the art of its time than most people realize. How come?
Was there any geographical factor to the art that was important? Like not only specific to time, but also to place?
If so, what place?
You’ll meet other composers who were doing the same thing Vivaldi was–at about the same time. But not the same place . . .
So where were they?
Besides Vivaldi, who are the two other Italians who usually get left out?
Was one of them Salieri?
You’ll learn about the artist who is almost NEVER mentioned in connection with Vivaldi although, as you’ll discover, there’s more than one reason to associate them.
You’ll explore the answers to questions such as is this explicitly seasonal music best taken physically (literally) or spiritually?
If you consider yourself a spiritual person, you might be interested in reading philosophy or theology.
Who was the philosopher who died before Vivaldi was born whose theory pertains to The Four Seasons, and why was his work just catching on while Vivaldi was alive?
Oh, but why stop just before our composer was born? Could we go back farther–even 2000 years?
Is there any connection between Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and ideas about art from ancient Greece?
Now let’s move from distant classical antiquity to the present.
Some of what you’ll learn has to do with YOUR context.
Keep in mind: this is not only about learning or discovery. You’ll also discover what you might believe that is wrong.
And then we have the world around us.
What does Vivaldi’s music have to do with globalization?
Was it all local back in the early 1700s?
Branches of the military have many sayings, and if you or any of your relatives have served, you might know this one: prior preparation prevents poor performance.
If you’re listening to Vivaldi without context, you’ll find out how much you’ve been missing once you begin to learn it.
And there’s certainly more than one way to hear this piece . . .
Which is why a survey of the available recordings is necessary.
A Select Partial Discography
One of the most famous magazine ads ever produced was the Positive & Negative campaign for Duracell, launched in India by Grey Mumbai. It won a Gold Press Lion at the 2013 Cannes International Festival of Creativity. But that wasn’t the end of this very simple idea.
It was followed by a twist on the approach. This was the Choo-choo Campaign from Grey published in 2014. It won the Gold Lion in the Press Lion category at the 2014 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Part of it says:
It was the soundtrack to his and consequently my life.
This singular piece of musical evil made just about everything sound a bit like it. Black Sabbath sounded strangely upbeat. Vivaldi sounded tinny.
It goes on like this for the length of a battery.
But it raises a pertinent point.
How would you like your Vivaldi to sound?
Tinny? Smooth? Robust? Even? Varied?
There are two primary ways that the original gets recorded, and if you don’t know what they are, what you also don’t know is how else it might sound.
Wouldn’t it help to have some sort of a guide here?
Especially if you might be a beginner?
Now, there’s another thing to point out that affects how Vivaldi might sound.
Sometimes people want to hear some sort of different, modern twist–even an approach that might have been unthinkable in Vivaldi’s day.
And you can’t even sample some of these when you don’t even know that they exist–or where to look for them.
That’s covered here, and some of it may surprise you.
Just what would you find surprising about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons?
That is the question, and here might be several possible answers to it.
If you like The Four Seasons, what other pieces by Vivaldi are worth getting to know?
Do you ever encounter bad examples when it comes to Vivaldi or classical music?
What kind of common mistake are many people making when they praise performances?
And what does RV mean, anyway?
What’s the significance of these numbers that follow the pair of letters?
What if you had something you could turn to that answered all your questions . . . in some cases, even before you thought of them!?
Or maybe you’ve gone looking for recordings, only to discover you have 50 choices or more, wondering whether they could all be that good?
Did you know for some classical pieces, some of the best recordings haven’t been made recently?
They date back to the 1950s, 60s, and 70s–yes, that’s right–that many years ago?
Do you wonder what kind of difference there is?
After all, what kind of choices COULD you make and how do they matter?
Wouldn’t you like to hear a performance THAT spectacular . . . one so passionate and unforgettable that practically every recording done over the decades since just does not measure up?
Far more than just being introduced to a few dozen of the best recordings, you’re going to have all kinds of insider and professional insight about the music itself . . . gathered by a professional musician.
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