Quattro Stagioni (violin quartet) by Ian Wilson, composer published on 2017-04-30T12:06:12Z 'Quattro Stagioni' (2016) is a 21st-century response to the idea behind Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons', as seen through the lens of American artist Cy Twombly's major work from the 1990s, 'Quattro Stagioni'. My 'Quattro Stagioni' consists of four concerto-type movements: each of the four violinists has their own focal movement, where the other three act as the 'ripieno' group. The character of each movement is inspired by one of Twombly's 'Quattro Stagioni' paintings. This work is a meditation on the cyclical nature of life and as such is full of colour, texture and emotion. The work was commissioned by Music Network and the performers on this recording are Mia Cooper, Katherine Hunka, Ioana Petcu-Colan and Helena Wood. Genre Contemporary Comment by Composer Luc Martin Having a grand old time listening with score in hand! Thanks again. 2017-07-27T20:49:40Z Comment by Composer Luc Martin Beautiful music 2017-06-15T22:02:11Z Comment by Composer Luc Martin Would love to see the score of this. Sounds like a great deal of engraving work! 2017-06-15T22:02:00Z Comment by Bernard Clarke Fabulous Ian-incredible writing hovering on nothing, wisps of sound; and the four players are stunning 2017-05-08T15:52:14Z Comment by Cork City Gamelan I amnot a great lover of of string quarte1t music, but this is very different. 4 violins??? I never heard anything like this before! 2017-05-02T09:40:28Z