Berliner Barock Solisten and Daishin Kashimoto with Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”

Giuseppe Tartini
Concerto grosso No. 2 in G minor (after the violin sonata, op. 1 No. 10)

Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 4 Violins, Strings and Thoroughbass in A major, TWV 54:A1

Francesco Geminiani
Concerto grosso, op. 3 Nr. 2 g-Moll

INTERMISSION

Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, op. 8 No. 1–4

Nature in constant transformation: Antonio Vivaldi’s cycle of concertos The Four Seasons traces the course of the year in music – with chirping birds, rumblingthunderstorms, dancing peasants, joyful hunting parties and biting frost. 

The work,performed by the Berliner Barock Solisten with Daishin Kashimoto, First Concertmasterof the Berliner Philharmoniker, as soloist, is among the most popular compositions ofthe Baroque era. Yet, Vivaldi’s contemporaries also composed works of dazzling energy,as demonstrated by the concerti grossi of Tartini, Telemann and Geminiani.