Konzert: Wellber / Reuven -Die acht Jahreszeiten by Various, De (2023/2023), Director Omer Meir Wellber, Volksoper, Viena, Austria

Music director Omer Meir Wellber combines two visions of the Four Seasons : Le quattro Stagioni by Antonio Vivaldi and Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas by Ástor Piazzolla. For his Four Seasons, Vivaldi uses a revolutionary concept. He portrays streams, birds, a shepherd and his barking dog, storms, hunting parties and frozen landscapes. The concerts are one of the earliest examples of what would later be called program music - music with a narrative element. In his four tangos, Piazzolla shows how the seasons present themselves in the southern hemisphere of the earth. Between 1996 and 1998, the Russian-Ukrainian composer Leonid Desyatnikov created a new arrangement in which he made a clear connection to Vivaldi. Desyatnikov uses the reversal of the seasons between the hemispheres in his choice of Vivaldi quotations: in Piazzolla's Summer he quotes from Vivaldi's Winter. The Israeli mandolin player Jacob Reuven is known for his musical clarity and enormous virtuosity. Reuven's musical horizons include everything from baroque to contemporary music.