Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra: Vivaldi's Four Seasons Remix

As long as there have been composers, there have been remixes of their music. When Max Richter ‘recomposed’ Antonio Vivaldi’s violin concertos known as The Four Seasons in 2012, he was joining a long line of musicians who have put their own slant on works by others – mostly driven by a sincere love for the original.

In this concert uniting the talents of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edvard Grieg Vocal Ensemble and Youth Choir, Rasmus Hella Mikkelsen takes Richter’s ambient expansion of Vivaldi’s seasons as a starting point for an evening of music echoing across the centuries.

Included is the baroque-style simplicity of Mozart’s ‘canon’ for four voices Nascoso è il mio sol and the vibrant, joyous brilliance of the same composer’s penultimate symphony. Opening the concert is choral music that appears to unite ancient and modern with uncanny brilliance – Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium for unaccompanied choir, in which combines the austerity of Gregorian Chant with the shimmering harmonic richness of modern American choral music.