Total Baroque Magazine asked international artists about their personal relationship with Vivaldi and “The Four Seasons”. Here are the perspectives of Andrea Marcon, Dorothee Oberlinger, François Lazarevitch, Julien Chauvin, Lynda O’Connor, Martyna Pastuszka, Ophélie Gaillard, Sébastien Daucé and Sigiswald Kuijken. 
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We tend to think of The Four Seasons as immutable, fixed in place by their very success. Yet they continue to change through the hands of those who perform them. Drawing on a series of testimonies from today’s interpreters, this feature explores highly personal relationships with Vivaldi’s score: formative memories, inherited gestures, freedoms taken, doubts embraced, stories of bodies and of languages. For some, The Four Seasons are a narrative learnt by heart; for others, a field of experiment, a space for play, sometimes even a distant continent. So many ways of inhabiting and reshaping them, and of reminding us that an overexposed work can still resist easy certainties.
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