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Since then, Richter has captivated millions worldwide with his “Vivaldi for the 21st century” ( DIE ZEIT).

Never before had Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, one of the best-known classical works of all time, been heard like this. When Max Richter’s VIVALDI RECOMPOSED was first released in autumn 2012, it had an unprecedented impact on many listeners.

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The orchestral sound world of the Wordless Music Orchestra was also far from Vivaldi with each player individually microphoned, and the bass augmented electronically to give visceral depth and luminous chord spacing. Violinist Yuki Numata played with bristling efficiency, rising to efflorescences of brilliance when a passage demanded it. Rather it was in the spirit of the reworking that good jazz players do when they revisit a standard and make it their own (though Richter's musical language, of course, is far from jazz). , which glosses an unfinished symphony by Schubert. For the first movement of Autumn, Richter clipped off notes to make a dance of slightly irregular gait, and the finale of Winter lost a quaver to be presented in 7/8 time.

The third movement of Summer conjured the same momentum as Vivaldi, while playing with the music's metric ambiguities. In the first concerto Spring, the familiar opening orchestral theme was forsaken and Richter builds most of the movement from the little flourish that accompanies the opening violin solo, over a new bass line of Richter's own devising. There were also moments of fiery energy, which Vivaldi animated by sequences and idiomatic virtuosity for the violin, and to which Richter adds the repetitions of musical minimalism. If there was a predominant emotional trope it was of intense ethereality – the sort of vivid presence that might accompany a brilliantly clear night in a film.

Classical innovator: German-born, British pianist Max Richter plays Vivaldi like you've never heard before.