Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons

Richter said he discarded 75 percent of Vivaldi's original material. What remains is phased and looped, with changed tempos, rhythms less regimented than the original, and instrumentation swapped here and there, such as a viola moved to cello in Spring 2. He calls the breaks in the music jump cuts, a cinematic term for the sense of a trap-door opening.

The Deutsche Grammophon album features violinist Daniel Hope, playing the 1742 Ex-Lipinski Guarneri del Gesù, with the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin under André de Ridder. It was released on 31 August 2012, before its first live performance, and topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK, Germany and the US. The UK premiere was at the Barbican on 31 October 2012 with the Britten Sinfonia, and NPR recorded and streamed the New York launch concert at Le Poisson Rouge. Ivan Hewett of The Telegraph called it subtle and often moving. The work was set on the French baccalaureate syllabus in 2019 and 2020, and Richter recorded a new version in 2022 with Elena Urioste and the Chineke! Orchestra as The New Four Seasons.