Violin soloist Andrew Beer. Photo / Adrian Malloch
Spring, summer, autumn and winter – the opportunity to experience the four seasons as musically depicted by Vivaldi, alongside Piazzolla's South American angle, is coming to Rotorua.
This seasonal chamber concert with a difference will be presented by Bay of Plenty Symphonia on in Rotorua on February 14.
Antonio Vivaldi's
famous Four Seasons concertos are interspersed with the jazzy, tango-inspired Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by the Argentine composer Ástor Piazzolla.
The Symphonia says while Vivaldi's version needs little introduction, Piazzolla's four 'concertos' are not so well known.
This music has numerous cross-references to Vivaldi's, building in the joke of inverted seasons between the two hemispheres, it says.
