{"id":2394,"date":"2025-10-31T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:53:32","slug":"the-rolling-year-listening-to-the-seasons-with-vivaldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2394","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2395\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HF-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HF-186x300.jpg 186w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HF-636x1024.jpg 636w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HF-768x1236.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HF.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Barry Forshaw<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This delightful volume is the perfect way to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi&#8217;s Four Seasons, in which the celebrated musicologist Hannah French presents a new strategy for listening seasonally to the piece, tied into the personal and creative life of the composer. What makes the book particularly valuable (apart from its highly accessible writing style) is the invitation it extends to listen afresh to a piece which has become \u2013 let&#8217;s face it \u2013 overfamiliar, particularly for its grotesque overuse as a piece of \u2018holding music\u2019 for telephone messages that spend an age actually putting you through. Listening to the work after a perusal of French\u2019s book is revelatory, particularly as the composer\u2019s world is evoked as vividly as one can imagine, with everything from such topics as health, nature, food, wine and science evoked in the journey. If you haven&#8217;t pulled your CD of The Four Seasons from your shelves for a while, Hannah French\u2019s book will inspire you to do so.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi<\/em> by Hannah French is published by Faber<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Forshaw This delightful volume is the perfect way to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi&#8217;s Four Seasons, in which the celebrated musicologist Hannah French presents a new strategy for listening seasonally to the piece, tied into the personal and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}