

A gentle ocean breeze floats up the granite hillside and into your tree-house villa, reminding you to take it slow. (2018) were extensively praised by the press.Īrabella Steinbacher, a multiple award-winner with an extensive PENTATONE discography, is accompanied by the players of the Münchener Kammerorchester, who make their PENTATONE debut. Concertmaster Yoonshin Song lights up Jones Hall with Astor Piazzollas showstopping, tango-infused response to Vivaldis Four Seasons, and. A romantic hideaway set in a tropical paradise.

Piazzolla’s music is performed here in a new arrangement for violin and string orchestra by Peter von Wienhardt, whose Strauss song arrangements on Steinbacher’s previous album Aber der Richtige. Coupling them with Piazzolla’s tango-inspired Four Seasons of Buenos Aires makes both pieces sound fresher than ever before, thanks to Steinbacher’s personal engagement with the repertoire and the inspired accompaniment of the Münchener Kammerorchester. The enormous popularity of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons tends to make us forget the original and ground-breaking nature of these violin concertos. Star violinist Arabella Steinbacher presents Antonio Vivaldi’s world-famous Four Seasons alongside Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro estaciones porteñas, creating a lively combination of baroque and tango. This is not what you normally expect when you put on a recording of the Four Seasons, or go to hear it in the concert hall. Africans, Andalusian Spaniards, Brazilians and Cubans all played a role in the evolution of the tango, which was used by African slaves as early as the 18th century for their.
