Les Arts Florissants with Théotime Langlois de Swarte presented by the Harriman-Jewell Series

Presenting Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at 300. When published in 1725 nobody could imagine Vivaldi’s Opus 8, Nos. 1-4 (“The Four Seasons”) would become perhaps the most frequently heard music of all time. Yet today, 300 years on, they remain as popular as ever.
This program frames these iconic works in a new light. Their overtly narrative style (Vivaldi included sonnets – perhaps written himself – alongside the music) invites questions about the fleeting, cyclical nature of our existence, our relationship with nature, and the eternal renewal of earth’s cycles.