Janine Jansen & Amsterdam Sinfonietta play Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
A performance as a thrilling dare: Janine Jansen and Amsterdam Sinfonietta in The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. Visual music that you can never get enough of! Vivaldi's highlight of the Baroque period is preceded by much more recent works by Thomas Adès and William Walton.
Janine Jansen & Amsterdam Sinfonietta play Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
Janine Jansen & Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Janine Jansen and the glowing string players of Amsterdam Sinfonietta are old acquaintances. Their band was formed more than 20 years ago. Janine Jansen: 'Working with them is always a pleasure. There is much room for experimentation, and some ideas arise on stage. Mutual trust forms the basis for being able to make music freely.' Their previous performance with Vivaldi's The Four Seasons was widely praised. 'A thrilling venture of interpretation' is how NRC described the performance. 'You tumble from one surprise to another.' They even won the Ovation, the Classical Music Prize of the Association of Theater and Concert Hall Management.
Vivaldi's four seasons
Vivaldi completed The Four Seasons in 1723 when Bach became Thomas Cantor in Leipzig, and Louis XV ascended the French throne. The work was published in Amsterdam. Few pieces have been performed as often as this series of four short violin concertos. Time and again, ticket sales prove that many people love this visual music. If a great soloist and an excellent orchestra program The Four Seasons, this is a guarantee for a beautiful concert.
Janine Jansen & Amsterdam Sinfonietta play Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
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