Vivaldi, Four Seasons - Winter

[appalachiablue]

[sandensea]

1. Perfect for the new year - thank you!

I'll tell you though, to me nothing quite captures the winter like this Andante:

[appalachiablue]

2. Very nice, I never knew Vivaldi also composed for music for guitar.

The piece has a subtle, pleasant tone and winter's tranquility and harmony can be sensed.

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Portrait, prolific 18th c. Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi b. Venice, Italy and "STORM", quite exuberant!

[sandensea]

3. Dio mio - que beleza!

Thank you for sharing that, appalachiablue.

Vivaldi's guitar and mandolin concertos have always been a favorite of mine. This thread wouldn't be complete, I think, without this one:

Try putting on a video clip of some fond place from your childhood or younger years (and if possible from that period), muting it, and then having this play behind it. Major goose bumps.

Above all: Happy New Year to you and yours, and All the Best.

[appalachiablue]

5. Quite beautiful and peaceful. The mandlin I adore, love the guitar.

Merci beaucoup et Bonne Annee! Do you know Portuguese, btw?

~ No Music, No Life ~

Spanish painter Francisco de Goya

[sandensea]

6. Portuguese? Um pouquinho.

Spanish and French, somewhat more.

Thank you for the Goyas. I remember seeing his Third of May and Royal Family of Charles IV at the Prado years ago, and I remember thinking how much of both, 200 years later, we still have in this world.

Too many people being killed for political or other petty reasons, and too many self-important oafs strutting like peacocks and using their office in bad faith.

Goya's portrait of the despot Charles IV of Spain and his mostly degenerate brood - whose corruption and excesses were largely responsible of Latin America's revolts and eventual independence.



Cheeto and all his little Cheetos. Any resemblance to Goya's painting is pure coincidence.

[appalachiablue]

9. Gilded trappings and rulers remain constant we see. Goya's formal images

I'm also less fond of, the stiff portraits of royals and artistos (pretty homely people!) that paid the bills for a commissioned court painter. Yet his particular style, brushwork and later themes were distinctive, and he's regarded as a unique transitional painter between traditionalism and early modernism during the Romanticism era.

Later works made when Goya became ill, increasingly deaf and isolated, displayed genius even if dark and disturbing in nature. His fears, pessimism and the ongoing social and political turmoil in Spain, the failure of liberal forces and entrenched monarchy were major influences. Goya is echoed in some of Picasso's and others art. Enough said.

Portuguese- maybe I thought that b/c of 'que beleza', or watching fireworks in Rio tonight! amazing city I visited once.

[diverdownjt]

10. wonderful follow up to winter above.

[GeoWilliam750]

4. My favourite version is this one

[sandensea]

7. Sublime - thank you!

One for the Bookmarks.

A very Happy New Year, GeoWilliam. All the Best for 2018 to you and yours!

[appalachiablue]

8. Your favorite, I can see why. Just sublime, gottlich! What an excellent version

that gave me a real lift. Thank you for sharing this gem. Fischer is superb, the ensemble and production too.

One of the last times in London I walked by St. Martin in the Fields & was so disappointed that we lacked time for a concert.

Happy New Year!