If you want a vibrant, expressive, unorthodox period-instruments performance of the Four Seasons, you should see the performance of Orchestra 1756 in the St Charles Church.

 

Some pieces are so familiar that the listener can lose touch with their immediacy and power. This performance, dynamic and hard-edged, lets you hear The Four Seasons again as if for the first time. Read more... 

Described as the first example of program music, the Seasons evoke the sounds of nature so realistically that one can hear the thunder, the wind, the rain, the singing of the birds, the murmuring of the brook, the barking of a dog, the sounds of humanity: bagpipes, hunting horns, harvest dances, even shepherds snoring. To "better explain the music," Vivaldi wrote a descriptive sonnet for each season.

St. Charles Church, being admittedly the most beautiful baroque church in Vienna, is just the perfect venue for baroque music.

The concert is highly recommended both for those who are just beginning to discover the wonders of Vivaldi's music and for "hardened" veterans.