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"The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi is a set of four violin concertos, each representing a season. "Summer" depicts thunderstorms and scorching heat, with the Presto movement illustrating a violent storm. This piano version adapts the original Baroque orchestration.

Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" is a pioneering example of program music, where each concerto vividly portrays the atmosphere of a season through innovative techniques like pizzicato for winter and storm-like rhythms for summer. Composed in 1723, it remains a cornerstone of the Baroque repertoire.

This Presto from Vivaldi's "Summer" concerto vividly portrays a violent summer storm through driving rhythms and virtuosic violin passages. Part of the revolutionary 1725 set "Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione" that pioneered programmatic music.

Vivaldi's "Spring" from The Four Seasons is a pioneering example of program music, featuring violin passages that imitate birdsong, thunderstorms, and pastoral scenes. Originally published as part of Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention), these concertos revolutionized Baroque music with their vivid storytelling.

"The Four Seasons" is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, each representing a season. "Winter" (L'inverno) features vivid musical imagery of freezing temperatures, icy landscapes, and warm hearths. The concertos were revolutionary for their programmatic approach, accompanied by sonnets possibly written by Vivaldi himself.