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Album guide

The Five Seasons

Eddie Daniels

Composer
Vivaldi
Released
1996
Label
Shanachie; Cachet Records
Forces
Clarinet, Orchestra, Quartet
Personnel
Eddie Daniels clarinet, Alan Broadbent piano, Dave Carpenter bass, Peter Erskine drums, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra orchestra, Bernard Rubenstein conductor

Daniels moved Vivaldi’s solo-violin line onto the clarinet, with Jorge Calandrelli preserving the chamber-orchestra score while opening doors into improvised passages for Daniels, Alan Broadbent, Peter Erskine and Dave Carpenter.

Daniels described the clarinet as an instrument shared by Mozart, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, equally at home in the classical and jazz writing.

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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsVivaldi · classical source works

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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. Spring 1Violin Concerto in E major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 ‘Spring’: I. Allegro
  2. Spring 2Violin Concerto in E major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 ‘Spring’: II. Largo
  3. Spring 3Violin Concerto in E major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 ‘Spring’: III. Allegro (Pastorale)
  4. Summer 1Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 ‘Summer’: I. Allegro non molto - Allegro
  5. Summer 2Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 ‘Summer’: II. Adagio - Presto - Adagio
  6. Summer 3Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 ‘Summer’: III. Presto
  7. Autumn 1Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 8 No. 3, RV 293 ‘Autumn’: I. Allegro
  8. Autumn 2Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 8 No. 3, RV 293 ‘Autumn’: II. Adagio molto
  9. Autumn 3Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 8 No. 3, RV 293 ‘Autumn’: III. Allegro
  10. Winter 1Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297 ‘Winter’: I. Allegro non molto
  11. Winter 2Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297 ‘Winter’: II. Largo
  12. Winter 3Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297 ‘Winter’: III. Allegro
  13. The Fifth SeasonNon-classical source