Charlotte Bach Festival: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

Aisslinn Nosky, violin
Members of Bach Akademie Charlotte Orchestra

Composed in 1718−1720, Antonio Vivaldi’s best-known work, the four violin concertos known as the The Four Seasons, was a revolution in musical conception. One of the earliest and most detailed examples of what we now call program music, Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds, a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires. Handel and Haydn Society concertmaster and Bach Akademie Charlotte Artistic Leader Aisslinn Nosky solos and leads the Bach Akademie Charlotte Orchestra in this brilliant tour de force.

Johann Sebastian BACH | Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083
Antonio VIVALDI | The Four Seasons