Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons ("Le Quattro Stagione"), "Summer", Presto
Sergej Krylov - violin
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras

This is a recording of one of the first live performances after COVID-19 lockdown in the world: Sergej Krylov and the LCO playing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to a socially distancing audience at Lithuanian National Philharmonic at Vilnius Festival 2020 simultaneously broadcasting to several channels and on social media.
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The Four Seasons is the best known work of a great composer of the Italian baroque era Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741). It is a group of four concertos for violin and orchestra published in 1725 together with accompanying poems (possibly written by Vivaldi himself) that illustrated what it was about those seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest and most-detailed examples of what was centuries later called programme music.

Summer (Concerto No. 2 in G Minor)
Allegro non molto
Under the merciless sun of the season
Languishes man and flock, the pine tree burns.
The cuckoo begins to sing and at once
Join in the turtledove and the goldfinch.
A gentle breeze blows, but Boreas
Is roused to combat suddenly with his neighbour,
And the shepherd weeps because overhead
Hangs the fearsome storm, and his destiny.

Adagio
His tired limbs are robbed of rest
By his fear of the lightning and the frightful thunder
And by the flies and hornets in furious swarms.

Presto
Alas, his fears come true:
There is thunder and lightning in the heavens
And the hail cuts down the tall ears of grain

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