Sunday • 3 August 2025 • 3pm
"The Seasons"
Chamber Academy Potsdam
Daishin Kashimoto • violin
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) • The Four Seasons op. 8 - Spring (1725)
Nino Rota (1911 - 1979) • Concerto per archi (1958 -1961)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) • The Four Seasons op. 8 - Summer (1725)
Giovanni Sollima (*1962) • Federico II (2000)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) • The Four Seasons op. 8 - Autumn (1725)
Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805) • La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) • The Four Seasons op. 8 - Winter (1725)
The popularity of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons comes from their atmospheric, onomatopoetic depiction of the seasons and the virtuosity of the violin part. In between the seasons, Kammerakademie Potsdam have inserted works by other Italian composers which clearly draw on Vivaldi’s baroque style of painting with sound but reinterpret this tradition. Nina Rota, known as a film music composer, weaves echoes of his scores into the baroque fabric of his Concerto per archi (meaning “for strings”). Giovanni Sollima named his string quartet “Federico II” after the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II who, in his opinion, was the archetype of a modern and open-minded politician back in the 12th century – traits that are mirrored in the work itself, which draws on the similarities between baroque melodic patterns and today’s minimal music. The cello plays a prominent and virtuosically refined role in Luigi Boccherini’s countless quintets. Like Giovanni Sollima, Boccherini was not only a composer but an outstanding cellist as well. The theme of his quintettino in C major is the acoustic backdrop of Madrid, his chosen home, at night. Daishin Kashimoto, first concert master of the Berliner Philharmoniker, will play the solo violin in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on this afternoon.
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