top
Home Labels Contact
The Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi

The Four Seasons

Jaap van Zweden

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917274622
barcode
Catalog number: CC 72746
Releasedate: 09-09-16
- this is a re-issue of a hugely successful 1990 recording of The Four Seasons

- soloist is Jaap van Zweden who later became a well-known classical and romantic repertoire conductor

- among the reasons of interest: the use of one-to-a-part group for the orchestra

- EUR 1.00 for each sold copy will be donated to Papageno foundation, created by van Zweden himself and supporting families with autistic children
It is remarkable that listeners in later ages hardly ever share the preferences of a composer’s contemporaries. This is also true to a certain extent in the case of Antonio Vivaldi. The twelve concertos op. 8, Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione of which The Four Seasons are the first four, were only printed four times. The first edition, published in Amsterdam by Michel Charles le Cene, appeared in 1725, and it was reprinted three times by the Paris publisher Le Clerc.