The Four Seasons

Album by Antonio Vivaldi & Giuseppe Verdi & Riccardo Minasi & Orchestra La Scintilla

The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, published in 1725 as part of his Op. 8 collection. The concertos are exemplars of Baroque programme music, using vivid orchestral textures and virtuosic solo violin writing to evoke seasonal scenes, and they occupy a pivotal position in Vivaldi's output and in the development of the solo concerto.

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  1. 1.
    Concerto no. 1 «La primavera» op. 8/1: 1. Allegro
    3:25
  2. 2.
    Concerto no. 1 «La primavera» op. 8/1: 2. Largo e pianissimo
    2:32
  3. 3.
    Concerto no. 1 «La primavera» op. 8/1: 3. Allegro
    3:24
  4. 4.
    Concerto no. 2 «L’estate», op. 8/2: 1. Allegro mà non molto
    4:55
  5. 5.
    Concerto no. 2 «L’estate», op. 8/2: 2. Adagio
    2:05
  6. 6.
    Concerto no. 2 «L’estate», op. 8/2: 3. Presto
    2:33
  7. 7.
    Concerto no. 3 «L’autunno», op. 8/3: 1. Allegro
    4:50
  8. 8.
    Concerto no. 3 «L’autunno», op. 8/3: 2. Adagio molto
    2:40
  9. 9.
    Concerto no. 3 «L’autunno», op. 8/3: 3. Allegro
    3:06
  10. 10.
    Concerto no. 4 «L’inverno», op. 8/4: Allegro non molto
    3:18
  11. 11.
    Concerto no. 4 «L’inverno», op. 8/4: 2. Largo
    2:22
  12. 12.
    Concerto no. 4 «L’inverno», op. 8/4: 3. Allegro
    3:04
  13. 13.
    Ballet music from «Les vêpres siciliennes»: L’hiver
    6:23
  14. 14.
    Ballet music from «Les vêpres siciliennes»: Le Printemps
    7:52
  15. 15.
    Ballet music from «Les vêpres siciliennes»: L’été
    6:14
  16. 16.
    Ballet music from «Les vêpres siciliennes»: L’automne
    9:29

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