Vivaldi – Four Seasons: Winter (L'Inverno), RV 297 | Full Concerto

Trembling, stamping, teeth chattering — this music is freezing. The sonnet Vivaldi published with Winter opens: "To tremble from cold in the icy snow, / In the harsh breath of a horrid wind; / To run, stamping one's feet every moment, / Our teeth chattering in the extreme cold." The first movement plays it out — the shivering, the stamping, the chattering. 0:00 I. Allegro non molto — trembling in the icy snow 3:31 II. Largo — by the fire while the rain pours 5:46 III. Allegro — walking on the ice THE REST OF THE POEM II. "Before the fire to pass peaceful, / Contented days while the rain outside pours down." III. "We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously, for fear of tripping and falling. Then turn abruptly, slip, crash on the ground..." Winter is the last of the four concertos, published in Amsterdam in 1725. ABOUT THIS RECORDING John Harrison, violin, with the Wichita State University Chamber Players. Recording © John Harrison (JohnHarrisonViolin.com), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: Wikimedia Commons (Category: The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)). Vivaldi died in 1741, so the music itself is in the public domain worldwide. This video is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. SOURCES The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) — Wikipedia. Composition around 1718–1723 (possibly 1716–17), publication in Amsterdam in 1725 in Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, the sonnets and their three-part structure, the instructions in the score, the movement titles, and the English translation of the sonnets quoted here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fou...) #Vivaldi #FourSeasons #Winter #ClassicalMusic