Of course, the challenges posed by such a project are obvious. There's a fine line when tackling the tricky work of tinkering with pieces that are the stuff of history and have thrived intact through ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A decade on from the release of his mesmerizing Recomposed album, trailblazing ...

The composer has done a brave thing for any artist in any medium: He's messed with a classic, specifically, Vivaldi's most famous four violin... Max Richter Recomposes 'The Four Seasons' Max Richter ...

I love Vivaldi’s music. His lesser-known sacred works had a big influence on Bach, too. What I hate, however, is calling somebody up and getting the v/m greeting, “Please enjoy the music while your ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Brandenburg mixes the Baroque gut string sound with Moog and laptop for world ...

Francisco Fullana is, to my knowledge, the first violinist to record Max Richter’s ingenious Four Seasons Recomposed since the initial outing with Daniel Hope on Deutsche Grammphon (among my favorite ...

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What is known as a cover in pop music -- a composer and/or performer making a song his or her own -- is ancient history in classical music. In medieval and Renaissance times, the chant tune on which ...

Chamber music, classical music’s third branch (after the symphonic and operatic repertoire), is the least-known genre in the classical music universe. And it has the unfortunate reputation of being ...

Can't take another moment of Vivaldi's ubiquitous Four Seasons? Neither could Max Richter, a London-based composer who deftly blurs the lines between the classical and electronic worlds. Long ago he ...

Rediscover centuries-old classics in a completely new light, with two works that infuse music of the Baroque period with shimmering contemporary flourishes. Following the festive splash of one of ...