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VIVALDI Antonio
An Introduction to...VIVALDI: The Four Seasons
1 - 1     Introduction: Opening, upward-pointing figure (1mn 33s )    
1 - 2     Answering, downward figure completes the phrase (22s )    
1 - 3     Beginning of dialogue (25s )    
1 - 4     The nature of musical conversation; repetition; echo effect (1mn 26s )    
1 - 5     Upward pointing to one target note (40s )    
1 - 6     Answer points to two, downward notes (11s )    
1 - 7     Same idea repeated 3 times (19s )    
1 - 8     The first Solo section: birdsong from three soloists, not one (1mn 53s )    
1 - 9     Repeat of two-pronged theme in orchestra (22s )    
1 - 10     Orchestra depicts murmuring stream, but still there s no real melody (51s )    
1 - 11     Further illustrative water studies (32s )    
1 - 12     Orchestra erupts into thunderstorm (27s )    
1 - 13     Orchestral thunder, virtuosic lightning from soloist - but still no tune (54s )    
1 - 14     Soloistic birds return to the air (41s )    
1 - 15     Variant of opening theme, with argument between two notes, one high, one low (25s )    
1 - 16     Cue to First Movement (20s )    
1 - 17     First Movement (Complete) (3mn 29s )    
1 - 18     Scene setting and Main Theme of Second Movement (1mn 56s )    
1 - 19     Analytical comment and Main Theme again (57s )    
1 - 20     Main Theme varied (41s )    
1 - 21     Further variation, tracing slow, descending scale-steps (43s )    
1 - 22     Analytical discussion of pace and tempo ; further variant of main theme (2mn 51s )    
1 - 23     Vivaldi springs a surprise, reversing direction and heightening tension (44s )    
1 - 24     Analytical cue to Second Movement (44s )    
1 - 25     Second Movement (Complete) (2mn 35s )    
1 - 26     Undercover bagpipes initiate the finale (1mn 05s )    
1 - 27     Second part of Main Theme: new notes, same rhythm (18s )    
1 - 28     An echo with a difference (23s )    
1 - 29     Reminder of echoed phrase in its original form (12s )    
1 - 30     Surprise variant provides springboard into new descending four-note pattern (19s )    
1 - 31     Unexpected, flowing entrance of soloist (36s )    
1 - 32     The use of sequence in first extended solo (1mn 21s )    
1 - 33     Vivaldi prepares expectation... (19s )    
1 - 34     ... and frustrates it by bringing in a new theme, using his four-note motto (1mn 07s )    
1 - 35     Violins accompanied by flowing commentary in lower strings (34s )    
1 - 36     Soloist returns with new variant (36s )    
1 - 37     Pace slows as violins trace another four-note scalewise descent (24s )    
1 - 38     The peasants return with the main theme, which turns unexpectedly downward (47s )    
1 - 39     Intensification as harmonies change under broad, descending four-note motto (37s )    
1 - 40     Mini-earthquake transformed into harmonic landslide (46s )    
1 - 41     Critical mood-change in soloist s lonely soliloquy (42s )    
1 - 42     Cue to restoration of main theme in its entirety as the movement ends (22s )    
1 - 43     Third Movement (complete) (4mn 15s )    
1 - 44     Scene setting and opening of First Movement (34s )    
1 - 45     Expanded groups of answering phrase (24s )    
1 - 46     Upper and lower strings alternately succumb to lethargy (49s )    
1 - 47     As in Spring , soloist enters with birdsong (34s )    
1 - 48     Orchestra hijacks soloist s material (40s )    
1 - 49     Soloist returns,first as turtle-dove, then as goldfinch (50s )    
1 - 50     Gentle breezes give away to North Wing (1mn 03s )    
1 - 51     The storm subsides; soloist enters as weeping peasant boy (1mn )    
1 - 52     Movement ends as storm returns (17s )    
1 - 53     First Movement (complete) (5mn 20s )    
1 - 54     Second movement opens with extremecontrasts (1mn 34s )    
1 - 55     Second Movement (complete) (2mn 28s )    
1 - 56     Stormy Weather; thunder (37s )    
1 - 57     Lightning from upper strings (22s )    
1 - 58     More lightning: heat lightning from violins, fork lightning from violas (24s )    
1 - 59     Torrential rain, depicted by entire orchestra (46s )    
1 - 60     Deferred entry of solo violin, in virtuoso vein (54s )    
1 - 61     Peasant s failing resolve as violin spirals down (21s )    
1 - 62     Nature triumphant; soloist draws on orchestra s rain music (1mn 35s )    
1 - 63     The peasant s capitulation (23s )    
1 - 64     Third Movement (complete) (3mn 03s )    
2 - 1     Repetitiousness and folk music; the movement s opening (1mn 17s )    
2 - 2     Secondary theme, a closely related development of the first (28s )    
2 - 3     Solo entry restates the opening theme, double-stopping (1mn 05s )    
2 - 4     Unexpectedly, a new theme where a repeat might be expected (36s )    
2 - 5     The soloist as drunkard (45s )    
2 - 6     Further violinistic slips and slides (15s )    
2 - 7     Orchestra re-enters with main theme, but is interrupted by the drunkard (18s )    
2 - 8     Other drunks join in dialogue with the orchestra (1mn 01s )    
2 - 9     The orchestral peasants continue their dancing, but things have changed (57s )    
2 - 10     Enter another drunk, courtesy of the virtuoso soloist (40s )    
2 - 11     The dance breaks up (38s )    
2 - 12     The drunkard interrupts again, then falls asleep, breathing heavily (56s )    
2 - 13     Conversation amongst the sober peasants leads to their final dance (24s )    
2 - 14     First Movement (complete) (4mn 46s )    
2 - 15     Scene-setting for Second Movement (1mn 08s )    
2 - 16     Second Movement (complete) (2mn 45s )    
2 - 17     Similarities between the Third Movement and the First (1mn 06s )    
2 - 18     Expectation and surprise: Vivaldi tacks on one bar too many (27s )    
2 - 19     A case of predictable unpredictablity: novelty and repetition (36s )    
2 - 20     Soloist s double-stopping depicts hunting horns (34s )    
2 - 21     Orchestra yields to unexpected display of virtuosity by soloist (38s )    
2 - 22     Soloist suddenly takes the part of the fleeing beast (25s )    
2 - 23     Symmetrical paralels with First Movement: beast / drunkard etc (47s )    
2 - 24     Death of the quarry, end of the movement (17s )    
2 - 25     Third Movement (complete) (3mn 13s )    
2 - 26     Orchestral strings enter, part by part; soloist depicts the biting wind (1mn 24s )    
2 - 27     Wind subsides and returns, tormenting the trudgers through the snow (53s )    
2 - 28     Soloist depicts snow flurries (27s )    
2 - 29     Soloist s flurries interrupted by six blasts of orchestral wind (32s )    
2 - 30     Teeth chattering, and with stamping feet, the travellers finally reach their goal (1mn 54s )    
2 - 31     Cue to First Movement as a whole (11s )    
2 - 32     First Movement (complete) (3mn 24s )    
2 - 33     Soloist s aria accompanied by pizzicato raindrops (37s )    
2 - 34     A sequence of simple scales, accompanied by opening rhythm (33s )    
2 - 35     Two scalewise ideas for the price of one: foreground and background (52s )    
2 - 36     New, rising scale-pattern unfurled with ever-greater breadth (36s )    
2 - 37     The pace increases eight-fold in concluding downwards scale (36s )    
2 - 38     Against an unvarying tempo, the pace is repeatedly varied (1mn 03s )    
2 - 39     Foreground / Background (34s )    
2 - 40     Detailed discussion of foreground / background perceptions; analogies with speech (2mn 14s )    
2 - 41     Second Movement (complete) (2mn 19s )    
2 - 42     Scene-setting; soloist begins for the first time (47s )    
2 - 43     Soloist rises progressively, in sequence, decoratively outling chord of the home key (26s )    
2 - 44     First orchestral section; ace is halved; the undermining onset of chromaticism (47s )    
2 - 45     The walkers lose their balance and stylishly fall down (22s )    
2 - 46     Soloist returns as the original solitary walker and strides away from the others (23s )    
2 - 47     One tempo, two rates of speed: fast for the soloist, slow for the orchestra (1mn 51s )    
2 - 48     Orchestra evokes the warm winds of the Sirocco (36s )    
2 - 49     Answering blast from the Borea, the could wind of the north; struggle for supremacy (1mn 07s )    
2 - 50     Cue to final movement (23s )    
2 - 51     Third Movement (complete) (3mn 08s )    

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