Extremes - wind, snow, cold, rainfall, thaw and heat - are vividly experienced in Henning Kraggerud's interpretation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Kraggerud manages to capture the climatic range experienced on top of the world in his music-making. And there's more - between each of the seasons. Inspired by Kremer and Desyatnikov's combination of Vivaldi and Piazzolla, Kraggerud has included four of his own works in between the seasons. These compositions evoke different connotations and new angles through which we can experience the world's most popular classical work. Kraggerud's pieces both comment and contrast Vivaldi's moods - positioned as it were between the seasons, forming an eight-spoke wheel. The album is accompanied by poetic liner notes from award-winning Norwegian author Erik Fosnes Hansen, chronicling Vivaldi's life story and relating it both to the music and also the sonnets that were printed along with the original work.

Tracklist:

Concerto No. 1 In E Major: La Primavera, Op. 8 No. 1 / Rv 269; I Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto No. 1 In E Major: La Primavera, Op. 8 No. 1 / Rv 269; II Largo E Pianissimo
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto No. 1 In E Major: La Primavera, Op. 8 No. 1 / Rv 269; Allegro (Danza Pastorale)
Preghiera
Concerto No. 2 In G Minor: L'estate, Op. 8, No. 2 / Rv 315; I Allegro Non Molto - Allegro
Concerto No. 2 In G Minor: L'estate, Op. 8, No. 2 / Rv 315; II Adagio
Concerto No. 2 In G Minor: L'estate, Op. 8, No. 2 / Rv 315; III Presto (Tempo Impettuoso D’estate)
Postludium In B Flat Minor From Equinox - 24 Postludes In All Keys For Violin And Chamber Orchestra
Concerto No. 3 In F Major: L'autunno, Op. 8 No. 3 / Rv 293; I Allegro
Concerto No. 3 In F Major: L'autunno, Op. 8 No. 3 / Rv 293; II Adagio Molto
Concerto No. 3 In F Major: L'autunno, Op. 8 No. 3 / Rv 293; III Allegro (La Caccia)
The Last Leaf - Magnus In Memoriam
Concerto No. 4 In F Minor: L'inverno, Op. 8 No. 4 / Rv 297; I Allegro Non Molto
Concerto No. 4 In F Minor: L'inverno, Op. 8 No. 4 / Rv 297; II Largo
Concerto No. 4 In F Minor: L'inverno, Op. 8 No. 4 / Rv 297; III Allegro
Victimae Paschali

UPC: 7033662013562
Label: Simax Classics
Release Date: 9.1.17
Format: CD

Henning Kraggerud - Between The Seasons (CD)