Recomposed topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK, Germany and the US, and to date has amassed more than 450m streams. When creative work leaves your desk, it takes on a life of its own. Watch the video for Spring 1 from The New Four Seasons The result, 2012’s Recomposed, succeeded in letting me encounter The Four Seasons afresh and laying the ghost of many hours of enforced listening to tinny 30-second loops of Spring while on hold waiting to speak to my bank. That’s very much the way post-minimal music and electronic dance music operates, and I found plenty of touch points that enabled me to dive into his material in a natural, sculptural and architectural way.
Vivaldi’s work is very pattern-based, and he generates his effects by juxtaposing contrasting kinds of material. The best way to do that, I decided, would be to take a voyage through Vivaldi’s landscape and to make new discoveries there.Īs I looked into the score I saw there was a natural meeting point between his baroque language and my own.
I needed to resolve the love/hate relationship I had with the work – call it an exorcism – and reclaim Vivaldi’s original as a musical object rather than a sonic irritant. Netflix’s Bridgerton, one of the many shows and events that Richter’s Recomposed has soundtracked.
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