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Recorded: 2003, Magnificent Venetian Villa's, Veneto
Le Quatro Stagioni
Filmed at magnificent Venetian villas designed by Palladio and other eminent architects
Villa Maser (Treviso)
Villa Foscari 'La Malcontenta' (Venice)
Villa Valmarana ai Nani (Vicenza)
Villa Contarini (Padua)
Villa Caldogno (Vicenza)
Extras:
Claudio Scimone on "The Four Seasons"
I tempii del sole, e della luna
The temples of the sun and the moon
A musical journey through the villas of Andrea Palladio
(Documentary)
TDK presents a very special program in true Italian style. A must for all lovers of excellent Baroque Music: the most "Italian" and also most widely known and played Baroque concerti, The Four Seasons, performed in what could have been their original setting. Played in some of the most magnificent Venetian Villas the well-known pieces gain a whole new aspect. Andrea Palladio, the 16th century architect, who gave a whole epoch its name, designed some of the houses and the beauty of the architecture adds to the music's narrative program The musical descriptions of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter are brought even more vividly to life in these beautiful Venetian surroundings.
The renowned Italian Baroque specialists I Solisti Veneti and their director Claudio Scimone are closely linked with the renaissance in Italian musical life over recent decades. Their untiring musical searches have unearthed treasures by Vivaldi, Rossini, Donizetti, Spontini and Ponchielli and re-established them in the repertoire. I Solisti Veneti render the descriptive suite on the seasons in five different Villas in Venice. In these surroundings the music unfolds its wealth of colours and imagination and the DVD gives viewers the chance to revive this memorable musical event and join the musicians on their journey through the treasures of Palladian architecture.
"Spring" is performed at the "Villa Maser". Designed by Palladio and built for the noble family of Marcantonio and Daniele Barbaro in the 1550s. The building is designed around an old spring and fountain and is celebrated for its frescoes by famous Venetian painter Paolo Veronese.
The performance of "Summer" was filmed at "Villa Foscari", which was built by Andrea Palladio in 1560 for Niccol? and Luigi Foscari. This majestic manor was also known as "Malcontenta di Mira" after a discontented lady who was among the first inhabitants of the grand house.
The 18th century "Villa Valmarana ai Nani", meaning the House of Dwarfs owes its curious name to sculptures made after drawings by Tiepolo, the famous 18th century painter. Goethe admired the villa's paintings by father and son Tiepolo in the classical and the rustic style when he visited in 1786. They provide a fitting setting for the rendition of "Autumn".
The movement depicting winter is played in two villas. Built on the foundations of an antique castle in 1546, the Villa Contarini, encompasses a famous hall in the shape of a guitar and two theatres. Here Vivaldi himself conducted a performance of his works in 1726.
Villa Caldogno, with its austere facade, is a building true to the principles of Andreas Palladio's ingenious architectural style. Built in 1565, the three classically arched lodges lead to the interior with its exuberant decorations, among them a fresco depicting a concert and numerous pictures of music making.
In an extensive, entertaining and informative interview Claudio Scimone speaks about the idea behind this performance of Vivaldi's music in Palladian Villas:
"When performing his music, as he must often have done himself, in the Venetian villas designed by Palladio and decorated by the Tiepolos, Veronese and other great artists, one readily finds the solution to the substantial performing problems posed by the text as one is guided by the sober and perfect lines of the architecture and by the luminous richness of the colors of the frescoes. (...) But the most important thing to remember is that Vivaldi was a very lively performer, a great virtuoso, a theatrical composer and that his great masterwork in the field of instrumental music, the solo concerto, clearly shows its derivation from the operatic style. Performing Vivaldi's great work in surroundings similar to those in which The Four Seasons were created is a powerful stimulus to change the way we perform his music: we no longer treat it as the skeletal remains of a corpse that has long since died and been buried. The experience encourages us to translate the extraordinary vitality of his art into sound as if Vivaldi had written the notes for us today."
This DVD takes the viewer on yet another musical journey. The Italian filmmaker Elisabetta Sgarbi, renowned for her unusual, impressionistic visual approach, depicts the Veneto, where the Venetian Villas rise. The film works with transfiguration of images and one by one, the rose-colored pillars of the Malcontenta, the Park of the Villa Manin, the sculptures of Villa Barbaro in Maser, the monsters of Villa della Torre and Paolo Verenose's as well as Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo's frescoes come into view. This journey, accompanied by the young Genoese harpist Michela La Fauci, is a true feast for the eyes and ears. |
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