The end product is performed by the English violinist Daniel Hope, German conductor André Ridder and the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin.ĭeutsche Grammophon will release Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons on August 31st, 2012. The extent of Richter's reinterpretation varies over the course of the album-he says some parts are almost entirely original, while others are tweaked on a surgical level. As everyone does, I had the piece in my brain and knew my favourite moments.' I hear it all the time in supermarkets, I have to endure it whenever I make a phone call and I’m put on hold, and it’s always turning up in TV ads.' Which isn't to say it's bad: 'It is such engaging, attractive material that it’s easy for young people to connect with it it’s very immediate. Max Richter trained in composition and piano at Edinburgh University, at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. 'It’s part of the musical landscape, and a part of my own daily life. Sora, who at nine years old was the youngest contestant in the entire competition, began playing the violin at age four at the Cannes Conservatory. 'You can’t get away from the piece,' Richter says. 9-year-old violinist Sora Lavorgna plays Richters Summer 1 in finals of Prodiges. Berlin-based composer and performer Max Richter is next in line for Deutsche Grammophon's Recomposed series.ĭue out at the end of August, the album shows Richter reinterpreting what is arguably one of the most familiar pieces of classical music ever written: Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

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