Vivaldi rewired: Max Richter’s Four Seasons

By Zoltán Szabó, 11 May 2015

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Reviewed at City Recital Hall, Sydney on 8 May 2015

Bach, Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV1048

Vivaldi, L'estro armonico: Concerto for 2 violins, cello and strings in A minor, Op.3 no. 8, RV 522

Bach C.P.E., Flute Concerto in A minor, Wq. 166

Vivaldi, The Four Seasons (Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione), Op.8 no. 1-4 (Arr. Max Richter)

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Paul Dyer, Conductor

Christina Leonard, Saxophone

Brendan Joyce, Violin

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The sopranista voice type is rare although not unknown, but there are very few who are an unmitigated joy to listen to: Samuel Mariño is one of those rarities.

*****

Yukie Sato unlocks Handel’s House in Sydney

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***11

Fellini goes Baroque with Circa and the ABO

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Acrobats flying to the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries makes for a surprising but highly entertaining combination in this energetic pastiche.

*****

Brandenburg performs Brandenburgs: the ABO turns thirty

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The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra celebrates the beginning of its 30th season with a fittingly chosen programme.

****1

Ripping the heart from Handel's Messiah

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Messiah butchered and trivialised in Sydney performance

**111

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Zoltán Szabó

Zoltán Szabó is a cellist and musicologist. Having migrated from his native Hungary to Australia in 1985, he worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney until 1991, when he became Principal Cello with Opera Australia. In 2017, he was awarded with a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD). Currently, he is teaching music history and musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Vivaldi rewired: Max Richter’s recomposition of The Four Seasons in Sydney