붓꽃 독백 - <안토니오 비발디 - 사계/The Four Seasons>

ANTONIO VIVALDI - THE FOUR SEASONS

Performed by Metamorphose String Orchestra
Conducted by Pavel Lyubomudrov
Violin: Yuliya Lebedenko
Recorded at the Church of St. Roch (Minsk, Belarus)

Concerto No. 1 in E major, RV 269 "Spring"
I. Allegro 00:00
II. Largo e pianissimo sempre 03:15
III. Allegro pastorale 05:37

Concerto No. 2 in G minor, RV 315 "Summer"
I. Allegro non molto 09:24
II. Adagio e piano - Presto e forte 14:30
III. Presto 16:35

Concerto No. 3 in F major, RV 293 "Autumn"
I. Allegro 19:14
II. Adagio molto 24:04
III. Allegro 26:24

Concerto No. 4 in F minor, RV 297 "Winter"
I. Allegro non molto 29:40
II. Largo 32:56
III. Allegro 34:54

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian

composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical ｅxpression to a season of the year.

They were written around 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam. The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Unusual for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with

accompanying poems (possibly written by Vivaldi himself) that elucidated what it was about

those seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest and

most-detailed examples of what was later called program music—music with a narrative

element.

ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA
Founded in 2015 by conductor Pavel Lyubomudrov, a graduate of the St. Petersburg State

Conservatory, the Metamorphose String Orchestra is a member of the prestigious Belarusian Union of Musician. Since its inception, the Orchestra has played more than 20 concerts in

Minsk, all met with great critical acclaim. With its constantly-changing repertoire, the Orchestra proves true to their name – experimentation is in their DNA. Special emphasis is put on

Belarusian and Russian composers. The Orchestra’s repertoire currently includes works by

Prokofiev (“Romeo and Juliet”) and Tchaikovsky (“The Nutcracker”, “Suite for Strings Op. 48”), as well as pillars of the classical repertoire such as Beethoven’s “Heroic” Symphony, Grieg’s “Holberg Suite”, Bizet’s “Carmen”, Haydn’s “Seven Words of the Savior on the Cross” and

Britten’s “Symple Symphony”. I

n 2016, the Orchestra premiered the works of A. Litvinovsky ("Le Grand Cahier", composed

for the stage production of the same name) and A. Pozharitsky. Throughout its life, the

orchestra has performed with prominent musicians and collaborated with important

personalities of the Belarusian artistic community, such as O. Podov (Honoured Artist of the

Republic of Belarus, Concertmaster of the State Chamber and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra) and Yulia Stefanovich (Honoured Artist of the Republic of Belarus). The Orchestra has also shared stages with flautist Maria Fedotova (Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg), cellist Mikael Samsonov (Belarus-Germany), oboist Juan Manuel Garcia-Cano (Spain) and pianist

Stanislav Soloviev, just to mention a few. In 2016, the Orchestra recorded their first album,

Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”, in the unique acoustics of the church of St. Roch. The same year,

they performed at summer festival "KolerFest" (held at the Belarusian State Museum of Folk

Architecture and Life), and were invited to perform at the concert of American metal band

Manowar in Minsk, proving once again their versatility, creativity, and talent.