Album guide
Vivaldi jazz le quattro stagioni
- Composer
- Vivaldi
- Released
- 2012
- Label
- Abeat Records
- Forces
- Piano, Solo
- Personnel
- Riccardo Arrighini
Vivaldi Jazz followed the success of Arrighini’s Puccini project and became the second step in a long solo-piano series that later took in Chopin, Verdi, Mozart and Beethoven.
Those classical-jazz programmes became his passport to concerts from Japan and Brazil to Russia and Australia.
Hear both
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.
Individual original-instrument movements follow the album’s reordered sequence, including its return to Spring’s first movement.
You can hear the album on Spotify below.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Primavera (1° tempo) - AllegroThe Four Seasons: Spring — I. Allegro
- Estate (2° Tempo) - Adagio, PrestoThe Four Seasons: Summer — II. Adagio–Presto
- Autunno (1° tempo) - AllegroThe Four Seasons: Autumn — I. Allegro
- Primavera (2° tempo) - Largo E Pp SempreThe Four Seasons: Spring — II. Largo
- Primavera (3° tempo) - Danza PastoraleThe Four Seasons: Spring — III. Allegro
- Inverno (1° Tempo) - Allegro Non MoltoThe Four Seasons: Winter — I. Allegro non molto
- Inverno (2° Tempo) - LargoThe Four Seasons: Winter — II. Largo
- Primavera (1° tempo) - Take 2The Four Seasons: Spring — I. Allegro
- Estate (3° Tempo) - PrestoThe Four Seasons: Summer — III. Presto