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Eight Seasons

Live at 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Joshua Bell directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

Live at 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Joshua Bell directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Astor Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arr. Leonid Desyatnikov)

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell (director/violin)

From an icy Italian winter to the heady, sensual warmth of a South American summer: violinist Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on a musical journey through the sights and sounds of two continents and four very different seasons. Inspired by Vivaldi’s best-known work, Piazzolla – Argentina’s 20th-century tango king, whose 100th anniversary we celebrate this year – created his own response, complete with musical quotations. While Vivaldi’s virtuosic concertos celebrate contrast – the freshness of spring, with its sudden thunderstorms, versus the languid heat of summer – Piazzolla’s musical landscape remains more constant, always swaying to the pervasive rhythm of the tango.

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 25 Aug 2021 20:00

Music Played

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Etude no. 4

    • Naxos Jazz.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Spring

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Spring

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Autumn

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Summer

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in F major, Op 18 No 1

    Performer: Zoltán Székely. Performer: Michael Küttner. Performer: Denes Koromzay. Performer: Gábor Magyar. Orchestra: Hungarian Quartet.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Rodelinda - Ritorna, o caro (Rodelinda)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Linn.

Broadcast

  • Wed 25 Aug 2021 20:00

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