Vivaldi’s Four Seasons 4+

Name: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Price: 12.99 CAD
Rating: 4.7 (17 reviews)
Author: NatureGuides Ltd.

NatureGuides Ltd.

Conçue pour iPad

- 4,7 • 17 notes

- 12,99 $

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Description

The world-famous piece comes to life with incredible detail, insight and two amazing performances. This app tells the story of Vivaldi’s masterpiece with Trevor Pinnock’s cult rendition of Vivaldi’s original, Max Richter’s groundbreaking Recomposed and a wealth of text, audio and video commentary.

‘It’s just a brilliant, brilliant thing...You can solo individual instruments, you can have different camera angles, you can see the score, you can hear what the back of the seconds are doing, it’s just mad!’ – Max Richter in The Guardian

Features of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons include:

• Two Acclaimed Performances: Listen to all four concertos of the Four Seasons and Recomposed in CD quality; the original performed by Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert, and Recomposed by Daniel Hope, Max Richter and the ensemble l’arte del mondo.

• An Immersive Playback Experience: Watch the performances with synchronised score and BeatMap, accompanied by a beautiful visualisation of colours as you listen through the performances.

• Innovative Visualisations: Discover the acclaimed BeatMap, as seen in the apps Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and The Orchestra – a groundbreaking visualisation of the performances that shows different sections of the orchestra pulse in time with the music.

• Beautiful Multi-Camera Video: Switch between three simultaneous video perspectives of Daniel Hope and Max Richter performing Recomposed.

• Solo Each Instrument: With the touch of a finger, isolate an individual section in the BeatMap of Max Richter’s ensemble, and listen to that instrument playing above the rest of the orchestra.

• The Story of The Four Seasons: In this content-packed, interactive and multimedia section, read, listen and watch expert background commentary and audio on Vivaldi, his life, his composition of The Four Seasons and how Max Richter Recomposed it.

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7 nov. 2018

Version 1.0.8

Optimizations for iOS 12

4,7 sur 5

17 notes

An app of the highest quality

Apps of such high quality are scarce. Many app-makers would be ashamed if they witnessed all the work that has been put into this masterpiece. It is worth every penny and will keep you coming back over and over for hours at a time.

First, you get history and facts. You can read about Vivaldi’s legacy (or lack thereof) and about the composer’s rediscovery in the 20th century. You also get all the biographical elements you need to tackle the history of Vivaldi and his era. All of this is presented in text, but also through little videos.

Second, you get a detailed analysis of the Four Seasons, bit by bit. Each season is split in little pieces. You can read about the piece, sometimes listen to a little video and then you just press play to listen to the bars. All that makes for a very enlightening experience. I’ve never learned that much about a classical piece of music before. You also get the same kind of analysis of the Recomposed piece (more on that later).

Third, you get to listen to the Four Seasons with a visual beat support that enables you to see when the instruments are playing while you’re listening. You can also look at the score for each instrument, going from right to left of the screen as you are listening. I barely know how to read music but I found this to be very educational.

Fourth, you get to listen to a contemporary recomposition of the Four Seasons. You have access to all the options mentioned in the last paragraph, plus you can see the orchestra play on video (you can chose your camera angle) while you’re listening. Also, you can press on an instrument to mute the other ones so you can focus on any solo performance of your choice.

All in all, you get a lot of features. All of it has made me appreciate Vivaldi’s Four Season in a completely new light. To the point that I now realize how little I know about all the other pieces I listen to all the time. I can only wish that Touch Press will keep making such apps to enable me to get into classical music in a completely new and improved way.

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