{"product_id":"max-richter-the-new-four-seasons-vivaldi-recomposed","title":"Max Richter - The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed","description":"\u003cp\u003eMax Richter's 2012 reworking of Vivaldi's \u003cem\u003eFour Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e was one of classical music's unlikely commercial phenomena — a record that took a piece most people know from adverts and phone hold music and made it feel strange and alive again. Ten years later, he did it a second time, from scratch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis version swaps Richter's original synths and Daniel Hope's violin for gut strings, period instruments and violinist Elena Urioste, performing with Chineke! Orchestra — Europe's first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra. In place of the smoother digital basslines of the 2012 recording, Richter brought in a rare 1970s Minimoog, tracked down specifically for the sessions. The effect is a grainier, more physical version of an already-radical rework: faster to breathe, rougher round the edges, and closer to chamber music than the original's polish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichter has talked about growing tired of hearing Vivaldi's original reduced to jingle music — \u003cem\u003eRecomposed\u003c\/em\u003e, in either version, is his way of getting the wonder back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of: Ólafur Arnalds, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Anna Meredith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deutsche Grammophon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54881554399500,"sku":"12B-00212","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4459\/3932\/files\/3000x3000bb_460ff182-3799-47e3-82fb-fbcd0a7cf471.jpg?v=1785013559","url":"https:\/\/12-bar.com\/products\/max-richter-the-new-four-seasons-vivaldi-recomposed","provider":"12 Bar Music and Social","version":"1.0","type":"link"}