The Eight Seasons

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St George's BristolGreat George Street, Bristol, South-West, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom

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Programme

Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)	The Four Seasons (Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione), Op.8 no. 1-4
Piazzolla, Astor (1921-1992)	Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires)

Performers

Soloists of Oxford Philomusica
Marios Papadopoulos	Conductor
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny	Violin
Yuri Zhislin	Violin
Carmine Lauri	Violin
Natalia Lomeiko	Violin

The Soloists feature in a fascinating double bill of Vivaldi’s and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons at St George's Bristol. Vivaldi’s enchanting quartet of concertos are presented in tandem with the colourful evocations of Ástor Piazzolla, the Argentinian master of the ‘new tango’. The notion that at any given moment on our planet there exist opposite seasons in each hemisphere is the inspiration for this thrilling combination of works.

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Four soloists perform eight seasons: Oxford Philomusica soloists at St George's Bristol

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 24th June

Eight seasons were performed at St George’s Bristol by the Oxford Philomusica: in this different approach to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, they added Ástor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The concept behind the concert was to combine old and new worlds of classical music, comparing works from the 18th and 20th centuries based on similar structures, and four sonnets depicting the seasons.

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