Then, in the second movement of Autumn I asked the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann to play in what is a rather old-fashioned way, very regularly, rather like a ticking clock.

It’s relentless pulsed music, which is a quality that contemporary dance music has and perhaps I was also thinking about John Bonham’s drumming. I’ve used electronics in several movements, subtle, almost inaudible things to do withthe bass, but I wanted certain moments to connect to the whole electronic universe that is so much part of our musical language today.” Other resonances are no less unexpected: MAX RICHTER describes part of the first movement of his Summer as: It functions as a sort of prelude, setting up an electronic, ambient space for the first Spring movement to step into. He opens with what he describes as “a dubby cloud which I’ve called Spring 0. MAX RICHTER calculates that, in the process, he has discarded around three-quarters of VIVALDI’s original. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.” “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mineshaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. This is no mere arrangement instead MAX RICHTER has absorbed VIVALDI’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream.

Maybe some works are so familiar that it seems almost impossible to hear them afresh, but that is what MAX RICHTER has achieved with Vivaldi “Recomposed”. And now that I finally listen to these amazing tunes, I feel like my grand-grand-parents sit by my side, we drink coffee and have the talk of our lifes about all the things we never had the chance to talk about. MAX RICHTER‘s version of The Four Seasons was what I was looking forward to most. Yes, MAX RICHTER‘s Recomposed – neither YEASAYER nor the PET SHOP BOYS – not even MUSE.

Now MAX RICHTER recomposed VIVALDI’s The Four Season and to be honest: this is the release I was most looking forward to this year. Maybe because they remind me of my childhood, sind this was one of the vinyls my grand-grand-parents used to listen – a lot. I always loved The Four Seasons by VIVALDI. Recomposed by MAX RICHTER – Vivaldi – “The Four Seasons”

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