Of course, the challenges posed by such a project are obvious. There's a fine line when tackling the tricky work of tinkering with pieces that are the stuff of history and have thrived intact through ...

Francisco Fullana is, to my knowledge, the first violinist to record Max Richter’s ingenious Four Seasons Recomposed since the initial outing with Daniel Hope on Deutsche Grammphon (among my favorite ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Brandenburg mixes the Baroque gut string sound with Moog and laptop for world ...

I love Vivaldi’s music. His lesser-known sacred works had a big influence on Bach, too. What I hate, however, is calling somebody up and getting the v/m greeting, “Please enjoy the music while your ...

Part of the BBC Proms.Max Richter’s Recomposed is the composer’s celebrated 21st-century reimagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Here, violinist Thomas Gould and the Britten Sinfonia breathe life ...

What is known as a cover in pop music -- a composer and/or performer making a song his or her own -- is ancient history in classical music. In medieval and Renaissance times, the chant tune on which ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Britten Sinfonia is unusual in the world of professional orchestras, in that ...

Composer Max Richter has done a brave thing for any artist in any medium: He's messed with a classic, specifically, Vivaldi's four violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. He has a new album simply ...