Antonio Vivaldi. Le quattro stagioni / Времена года. "La Primavera" ("Весна")
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Date: 2014-04-06

София Лубянцева, Алексей Ужегов, Олег Батаев, Александра Муковня http://flutemasters.ru/ Камерный концертный зал при храме Казанской иконы Божией Матери, Ленинградская область, пос. Вырица, 23.02.2014

Времена года (итал. Le quattro stagioni «Четыре времени года», 1723)  Антонио Вивальди — первые четыре из двенадцати скрипичных концертов его восьмого опуса,  в стиле барокко. Концерты написаны в  году и впервые опубликованы два года спустя. Каждый концерт посвящён одному времени года и состоит из трёх частей, соответствующих каждому месяцу. Каждому из концертов композитор предпослал сонет - своего рода литературную программу. 
Концерт №1 ми мажор «Весна», RV 269
1 Allegro. Пришла весна
2 Largo e pianissimo sempre. Спящий пастух.
3 Allegro, danza pastorale. Деревенский танец
Scores Le Quattro Stagioni (Vivaldi, Antonio) - https://yadi.sk/i/e3HsBMWjaij4o

The Four Seasons  is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. The concertos were first published in 1725 as part of a set of twelve concerti, Vivaldi's Op. 8, entitled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). Vivaldi dedicated their publication to a Bohemian patron, Count Václav Morzin (of Vrchlabí 1676–1737), and in so mentioned the count's longstanding regard for these four, in particular (which had apparently been performed with the nobleman's orchestra, in Prague's Morzin Palace)—although his dedication may have been closely related to the completion of an Augustinian monastery that year.
The first four concertos are designated Le quattro stagioni, each being named after a season. Each one is in three movements, with a slow movement between two faster ones (and these movements likewise vary in tempo amid the seasons as a whole). 

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi - Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he was recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He is known mainly for composing many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and over forty operas. 
Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna, hoping for preferment. However, the Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and Vivaldi himself died less than a year later in poverty.