Each month our Classic Album Sundays Patreon Members gather from all corners of the globe to explore, discuss and listen to our Album of the Month online. This month the Album Club will explore Recomposed by Max Richter ‘Vivaldi: The Four Seasons’ on Tuesday, the 29th April at 8pm BST on Zoom.
The 2012 album features the contemporary composer’s complete recomposition and reinterpretation of Vivaldi’s violin concertos The Four Seasons. Richter said that he had discarded 75 percent of Vivaldi’s original material, the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music.
Ivan Hewett of The Telegraph gave a positive review: “As you would expect of a composer who once studied with the great modernist Luciano Berio, Richter is very self-aware. He notices that his own taste in repeating patterns doesn’t mesh with the apparently similar patterns in Vivaldi. They obey a different logic, and the friction between them generates a fascinatingly ambiguous colour. Richter teases out and heightens this colour, sometimes with Vivaldi uppermost, sometimes himself. It is a subtle and often moving piece of work, which suggests that after years of tedious disco and trance versions of Mozart, the field of the classical remix has finally become interesting.”
On Tuesday, the 29th April at 8pm BST, The Album Club will meet on Zoom to explore this album through a presentation by CAS founder Colleen, then a playback and concluding with a group discussion. The Album Club is open to our Patreon Members and higher tiered subscribers. If you would like to join us, you can become a Patreon Member here.
The Album Club is like a book club but centred around albums and it started as a monthly online gathering during the pandemic but we have been having so much fun, we have kept it going. Plus the online nature allows album fans from around the world to participate. This is how it works:
Subscribe as a Classic Album Sundays Patreon Member
A couple of days before our online Album Club, you will receive a Musical Lead-Up playlist featuring 10 songs that will whet your appetite for our featured album. The playlist will feature the artist’s inspirations, contemporaries, and their own work. You will also receive the Zoom details for the Album Club meet up.
On the day of the Album Club, click on that Zoom link! Doors open at 7:45pm GMT (come in early and say hello!) and then the session starts promptly at 8pm GMT
Colleen then tells the story behind the album. This is also recorded so that Members who are unable to attend in real time will get a private link for the video presentation.
The album will then be played in its entirety without interruption. You can either listen via Colleen’s stream on Zoom or you can listen to your own copy on your own sound system.
After the album replay, we all discuss the album and share our thoughts – just like a book club. Its a lot of fun for people who are musically adventurous and who love exploring albums. I hope you can join us.
