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Session Report: composer Ailbhe McDonagh and violinist Lynda O’Connor on The Irish Four Seasons

2024-08-02T08:17:00

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Composer Ailbhe McDonagh and violinist Lynda O’Connor talk to Harry White about The Irish Four Seasons, a new work inspired by Vivaldi’s masterpiece, and their approach to recording it alongside its namesake

Since their rediscovery in the early part of the last century and their first complete recording made in 1942, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons have acted as a continuous well of inspiration from which performers and composers have drawn. Written between around 1716 and 1720, the concertos were spectacularly original at the time, with their programmatic narrative and description of nature through idiomatic effects…

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