Max Richter spring-cleans Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

Musician Max Richter has given The Four Seasons an avant-garde update. Then he had to find an orchestra who could play itIt starts with a shimmer of something strange and soft, an ambient mist of strings that's both electronic and acoustic. Then something weird happens. Out of these shifting sonic tides comes an ensemble of violins – playing fragments of the world's most overfamiliar concerto, the soundtrack to 1,000 adverts, an on-hold phone favourite that features on every classical compilat...

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