In this arrangement the virtuosic and solo violin passages have been shared to create a balanced and very playable version for wind quintet.Concertos For violin, strings, continuo Scores featuring the violin Scores featuring string ensemble Scores with basso continuo For strings with soloists and continuo For orchestra (arr) Scores featuring the orchestra (arr) For piano 4 hands, strings (arr) Scores featuring the piano (arr) Scores featuring the piano 4 hands (arr) Scores featuring string ensemble (arr) For strings with soloists (arr) For piano, strings (arr) For mandolin (arr) For 1 player (arr) Scores featuring the mandolin (arr) For flute, clarinet (arr) Scores featuring the flute (arr) Scores featuring the clarinet (arr) For 2 players (arr) For violin, piano (arr) Scores featuring the violin (arr) For piano 4 hands (arr) For organ (arr) Scores featuring the organ (arr) For piano (arr) For 5 double basses (arr) Scores featuring the double bass (arr) For 5 players (arr) For 2 violins, viola, cello (arr) For 4 players (arr) Scores featuring the viola (arr) Scores featuring the cello (arr) For violin, 2 violas, cello (arr) For flute, cello, double bass (arr) For 3 players (arr) For flute, guitar (arr) Scores featuring the guitar (arr) For viola, piano (arr) For cello, piano (arr) For double bass, piano (arr) For 2 pianos (arr) For keyboard (arr) Scores featuring keyboard soloists (arr) For harpsichord (arr) Scores featuring the harpsichord (arr) The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi’s works. The terrified beast they pursue desperately tries to flee, but dies from its wounds. When day breaks it’s time for the hunt – a noisy affair with guns, dogs and horns. Their revelry ends in drunken slumber, cooled by an autumnal breeze. In the third concerto, Autumn ( L’Autunno), the sonnet – and Vivaldi’s music – describes peasants celebrating a bountiful harvest with singing, dancing and drinking. Thus, the concerti stand as one of the earliest and most detailed examples of what would come to be called ‘program music’ – that is, music with a narrative element. We hear, for instance, musical portrayals of barking dogs, singing birds, buzzing flies, storms, frozen landscapes and warm winter fires. Rather unusually for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with a set of accompanying sonnets and he took great pains to relate his music to the sonnet’s texts.
The Four Seasons ( Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti written in the early 18 th century by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741).
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