The Four Seasons

Album by Antonio Vivaldi & Nigel Kennedy & English Chamber Orchestra

The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, published in 1725. The concertos exemplify Baroque programme music, using vivid seasonal imagery conveyed through expressive solo violin writing, ritornello-based structures and virtuosic passages, and they occupy a prominent place in Vivaldi's published output and the development of the solo concerto genre.

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  1. 1.
    Concerto no. 1 in E, RV 269 “La primavera”: I. Allegro
    3:05
  2. 2.
    Concerto no. 1 in E, RV 269 “La primavera”: II. Largo
    2:36
  3. 3.
    Concerto no. 1 in E, RV 269 “La primavera”: III. Allegro
    4:08
  4. 4.
    Concerto no. 2 in G minor, RV 315 “L’estate”: I. Allegro non molto
    5:22
  5. 5.
    Concerto no. 2 in G minor, RV 315 “L’estate”: II. Adagio
    2:20
  6. 6.
    Concerto no. 2 in G minor, RV 315 “L’estate”: III. Presto
    2:53
  7. 7.
    Concerto no. 3 in F, RV 293 “L’autunno”: I. Allegro
    4:37
  8. 8.
    Concerto no. 3 in F, RV 293 “L’autunno”: II. Adagio molto
    2:55
  9. 9.
    Concerto no. 3 in F, RV 293 “L’autunno”: III. Allegro
    3:53
  10. 10.
    Concerto no. 4 in F minor, RV 297 “L’inverno”: I. Allegro non molto
    3:27
  11. 11.
    Concerto no. 4 in F minor, RV 297 “L’inverno”: II. Largo
    2:06
  12. 12.
    Concerto no. 4 in F minor, RV 297 “L’inverno”: III. Allegro
    3:14

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