Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

The Four Seasons is not just well-known: it’s one of the most exciting, colourful and innovative works from the Baroque era. Each concerto is accompanied by a sonnet, and the hallmarks of each Italian season, from birdsong in Spring to pesky flies in Summer, all imagined in amazingly vivid musical form.

Vivaldi would be totally astonished by the fame of his Four Seasons today. As a priest working in an orphanage, the majority of his music was heard by only a relatively small circle of people in Venice, and almost all of it was forgotten, lost or disregarded for nearly two centuries after his death.

This concert also includes a concerto by Corelli and the world premiere of celebrated Victoria composer Calvin Bowman's Daylesford Music, commissioned by residents of Daylesford.

Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso in D major Op 6 no 4
Calvin Bowman Daylesford Music
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons

MCO acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands on which this work was recorded and is presented, and pays its respects to elders past, present and emerging.

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra thanks Melbourne Digital Concert Hall and 5Stream.
This screening is funded through Creative Victoria’s Strategic Investment Fund Stage II and the City of Casey.