Le Quattro Stagioni · The Four Seasons

Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione
The Contest between Harmony and Invention

Aitor Hevia; Theo Bleckmann; Uri Caine; Aarón Zapico;

Winter & Winter febrero 2012

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"Con permiso del mencionado Il Giardino Armonico y de Gli Incogniti (Amandine Beyer), no les quepa la más mínima duda de que estamos antes las mejores Cuatro Estaciones de la Historia."


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The Four Seasons Revisited (Doce Notas) septiembre 2012
"Sin palabras deja esta grabación" Parece imposible que se pueda hacer algo nuevo con las archiconocidísimas Cuatro Estaciones de Vivaldi. Pues sí, se puede. Pero no está al alcance de cualquiera; se necesita una mezcla tan explosiva como la de Aarón Zapico, Aitor Hevia, Forma Antiqva, Theo Bleckmann, Uri Caine y Winter & Winter. Sin palabras deja esta grabación, y sin ellas se presenta al oyente. La ausencia de un libro explicativo nos demuestra que no hace falta ser un erudito para vibrar y estremecerse con esta música: únicamente hay que estar dispuesto a disfrutar...

Vivaldi: las Cuatro Estaciones (El Cultural) julio 2012
"La versión rezuma humanidad y sensualidad. Se respira cada frase en un acercamiento envuelto en sorprendentes sonoridades, en acentos perentorios, fulgurantes, en prodigiosos sforzandi que levantan del asiento, en furibundos ataques. Los lentos son escalofriantes por su sabor metálico, por su delgadez etérea. Los inclementes golpes de arco, las arridas de semicorcheas nos atrapan, lo mismo que el demoledor aire de danza. Los ritmos son implacables, martellatti, electrizantes. " La partitura es muy abierta y deja libertad a los intérpretes para, sobre una construcción armónica muy...

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The Four Seasons Revisited (Doce Notas) septiembre 2012
Vivaldi: las Cuatro Estaciones (El Cultural) julio 2012
Las Cuatro Estaciones (Cuadernos de Jazz) julio 2012
Aigua fresca (L'ESMuC Digital) abril 2012
¿Otra versión más de Las Cuatro Estaciones? (Mundoclásico) marzo 2012
Shock Vivaldi (La Nueva España) marzo 2012
Retórica de las estaciones (Diario de Sevilla) marzo 2012
Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (Fidelity Magazin) marzo 2012
El ritmo de las estaciones (El pozo y el péndulo) febrero 2012
Las mejores Cuatro Estaciones de la Historia (Diverdi) febrero 2012
The Four Seasons (JPC Highlights) febrero 2012
Vivaldis Vier Jahreszeiten (NDR Kultur Klassik) febrero 2012
The Four Seasons (Aachener Zeitung) enero 2012
The Four Seasons (Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung) enero 2012
The Four Seasons (Klassik Erleben) enero 2012
The Four Seasons (BR Klassik) enero 2012

Le Quattro Stagioni · The Four Seasons

Pistas

1. SPRING
La Primavera [Op. 8 N° 1 RV 269]
2.Allegro 3.Largo 4.Allegro

5. SUMMER
L’Estate [Op. 8 N° 2 RV 315]
6. Allegro 7. Adagio 8. Presto

9. AUTUMN
L’Autunno [Op. 8 N° 3 RV 293]
10. Allegro 11. Adagio 12. Allegro

13. WINTER
L’Inverno [Op. 8 N° 4 RV 297]
14. Allegro 15. Largo 16. Allegro

The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons Sonnets by Theo Bleckmann y Uri Caine

Total time: 53:06

Notas al libreto

A wonderful audiofilm (cinema for closed eyes). An outstanding musical radio play. A musical homage to the world and the wonder of life — who besides Stefan Winter would dare to set Antonio Vivaldi's sonnets to music for the very first time, to open with these four new songs the master piece "Le Quattro Stagioni". Since years Stefan Winter works as a sound artist, recording director and producer and he is known for ambitious and bold projects, now he surprises once again his audience with a creative new version of Antonio Vivaldis »The Four Seasons«.
The Spanish baroque ensemble Forma Antiqva under the musical direction of Aarón Zapico featuring the violinist Aitor Hevia create together with Theo Bleckmann and Uri Caine, and the visual artist Marcel van Eeden, a synthesis of the arts of this Baroque masterpiece.
Vivaldi's sonnets are the starting point. These poems seem to be almost irrelevant short stories about sequences of events which happen during the seasons of the year. Vivaldi composes a baroque audio-film (cinema for closed eyes) about these sonnets and creates one of the most beautiful declarations of love for man and nature. His work of musical art tells a story about birds in springtime, rushing streams, dancing nymphs and shepherds, about searing heat in the summertime with dreadful and devastating hail storms, dance festivals with drunken farmers in the fall and brutal hunting until the very end, about the iciness in wintertime, a warm place in front of a cosy chimney fire and the warlike stormy northerly winds which blow across the land. Theo Bleckmann and Uri Caine set to music for the very first time Vivaldi's poems in a translation adapted into modern English by Timothy Kotowich. Bleckman sings, is using electronic effects, works with samples and loops. Caine plays piano, keyboards and creates sound waves and rhythm patterns. Each song is made out of different elements. Wonderful piano parts can be heard for springtime, the summer is full of electronic sound cascades, the fall brings dance rhythms and the winter ice cold sounds. Bleckmann and Caine compose a "recitative" for »The Four Seasons« and freely interpret Vivaldi's text. The poems and also parts of the harmonic structure were very likely penned by Vivaldi himself.
Beginning of the 18th century the original composition "Le Quattro Stagioni" is available in a published edition with the title "Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione" ("The contest beween harmony and invention"). This edition contains the twelve concerts Opus 8 which gain an international reputation under the name »The Four Seasons«. Even Johann Sebastian Bach gets inspired by Vivaldi's works. But that is another story... These twelve parts can be seen as the components of a year. And always three parts build one concert, to be used as a model for spring, summer, autumn and winter. Vivaldi creates characteristic musical short stories
and writes program music. Vivaldi is a master of baroque sounds, rich in metaphors and at the same time comprehensible and professional. The sonnets are full of charm and sensuality and emotion, fear, life and death.
Aarón Zapico and his early music ensemble Forma Antiqa re-interpret in a unique and exciting way »The Four Seasons« and create rich sounds. Zapico and his musicians featuring the soloist Aitor Hevia perform like "actors" in a movie. Each musician embodies a special role. They have fun pretending to be a blooming meadow, a violent thunderstorm, the blazing sun, but also the dance which runs like a red thread through the whole story. Aitor Hevia plays the leading role, he mimics a bird, a farm boy, who is afraid about the storm which can ruin the harvest, he plays a deer which will be killed by the hunters, and he acts as an ice cold winterwind which is blowing over the frozen land. Stefan Winter is directing the production like a film director: "The musicians should melt into a new and personal style to be able to perform as actors. Stefan Winter finds with Aarón Zapico, Forma Antiqva and Aitor Hevia congenial partners. The focus is on Vivadi's composition which has many different sides, sometimes the music appears surprisingly tough with powerful and brutal sounds, at the same time as having a gentle manner. With the simplest of means a complex imaginative space about love, death and life in the changing faces of nature is created. The story begins with the first sunbeam in spring time, who creates life, and ends with the icy, warlike apocalypse in the winter. The interpretation of Vivaldi's text takes place today. Similar to a theater director who works on a play by William Shakespeare to bring it on stage in a new production, Aaròn Zapico and Stefan Winter find new interpretations and approaches for Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Aarón Zapico, Forma Antiqva and Aitor Hevia link virtuosity with the will and power of expression. These "young and wild" musicians create something new which is above and beyond historical performance practice. The musician's musical work resembles that of the Dutch painter and installation artist Marcel van Eeden, who made drawings for the cycle »The Four Seasons« which are far from the image of a deciduous tree in spring-, summer-, autumn- and wintertime.

Discos


Sancta Ovetensis

Esplendor en la catedral de Oviedo

My choice

Highlights from Forma Antiqva recordings

Baset

Symphonies. Madrid, 1753

Concerto Zapico Vol. 2

Forma Antiqva plays Spanish Baroque Dance Music

The Volcano Symphony

Ernst Reijseger | FORMA ANTIQVA | Aarón Zapico

Crudo Amor

Dúos de Agostino Steffani para soprano y contratenor

Opera Zapico

Arias de ópera desde Monteverdi hasta Mozart arregladas instrumentalmente por Aarón Zapico, Daniel Zapico y Pablo Zapico

Concerto Zapico

Forma Antiqva plays Baroque Dance Music

Amore x Amore

Cantatas para Alto y obras instrumentales de Georg Friedrich Händel

Sopra Scarlatti

Cantate à voce sola di soprano di Domenico Scarlatti

[agotado]

Insólito estupor

Villancicos, saynetes, cantadas... y una batalla

Bizarro!!

Música italiana del seicento

DVD Rara Avis 1.0

Grabación DVD de concierto en directo

Premios

Premio Sello FestClásica (Asociación de Festivales Españoles de Música Clásica) a Forma Antiqva y su programa «Farándula castiza», 2021.
Premio GEMA (Asociación de Grupos Españoles de Música Antigua) a la «Mejor Dirección 2019» para Aarón Zapico.
Medalla de Oro del Foro Europeo Cum Laude, 2019.
Premio MIN de la Música Independiente - Mejor Álbum de Música Clásica 2019 para «Concerto Zapico Vol. 2».
NPR Music's Best Classical Albums Of 2018 para «Concerto Zapico Vol. 2».
Premio GEMA (Asociación de Grupos Españoles de Música Antigua) al «Mejor Grupo de Música Barroca y Clasicismo 2016».
Premio GEMA (Asociación de Grupos Españoles de Música Antigua) a la «Mejor Producción Discográfica 2016» por «Crudo Amor - Agostino Steffani».
Premio FestClásica (Asociación de Festivales Españoles de Música Clásica) a Forma Antiqva y su programa «Concerto Zapico», 2015.
Nominación International Classical Music Awards «Opera Zapico», 2014.
Nominación International Classical Music Awards «Concerto Zapico», 2012.
Premio AMAS de la Música en Asturias, 2012.
Premio Serondaya a la Innovación Cultural, 2012.
Nominación a los International Classical Music Awards por «Amore x Amore», 2011.
Premio «Asturiano del Mes» del periódico La Nueva España, 2011.
Premio al «Grupo del Año» de la Radio Televisión Pública de Asturias, 2010.

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