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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Stephen Johnson traces the roots of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to a set of mysterious sonnets and explores what motivated the composer to translate poetry into music.
Barking dogs, sleeping goatherds, bagpipes, finches and bluebottles - Vivaldi's Four Seasons has them all. But is there more to these exquisite violin concertos than a collection of pictures in sound? Stephen Johnson traces the work's roots to a set of mysterious sonnets and explores what motivated Vivaldi to translate poetry into music.
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Fri 27 Apr 2012
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