Paul Carr's Four New Seasons | English Arts Chorale

The world première of Paul Carr's Four New Seasons, a re-imagining of Vivaldi's classic piece, with texts by poets including Housman, Whitman, Shakespeare and Rossetti.

Paul's re-interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons is written for choir and orchestra. Comprising four movements, each one commissioned by a choir close to Paul's heart, Four New Seasons sets twelve seasonal poems to music, with themes suggested to Paul by the atmosphere created by each of the four movements in the original piece.

The music of English composers provides the rest of the programme, culminating in the world première of Paul Carr's energising new setting of the Four Seasons.