Eight Seasons with David Juritz

Leader of the London Mozart Players David Juritz performs his unique version of these Piazzolla and Vivaldi Seasons. His flair and panache are sure to make it eight seasons to remember!

Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of his most famous works, mostly thanks to Nigel Kennedy, with its dramatic shivering music in winter and portrayal of the laziness in the heat of summer. Piazzolla's Cuatro estaciones porteñas (the last word is an adjective referring to ‘port city’, but in this context it means only Buenos Aires) cover a remarkable range of moods and sounds, tracing a kind of programmatic circuit of the seasons, beginning in the spring and progressing through to winter. The programmatic titles, ‘Buenos Aires spring’ and so on, are general enough to avoid suggesting any specific visual images. The result is purely abstract music, passionate, songful, dark, romantic, rhythmic — imbued with the spirit of everything connoted by the word ‘tango’.