VIVALDI – WINTER (Four Seasons) ORGAN

Organ of Basílica de Santa María, Elche, Spain - JONATHAN SCOTT

Jonathan Scott plays his organ arrangement of Winter (L'Inverno) from Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" on the organ of Basilica de Santa Maria, Elche Spain. 

The Organ was built by Gerhard Grenzing in 2006

The score of this arrangement is available here: scott brothers duo. 

The accompanying words are from The Four Seasons sonnets:

THE FOUR SEASONS SONNETS

Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297, L’Inverno (“Winter”)

1.

To tremble from cold in the frozen snow,

in the severe blowing of a horrid wind;

To run, stamping one's feet all the time,

our teeth chattering in the extreme cold;

2.

To pass peaceful contented days before the fire

as the rain pours down outside.

3.

To walk on the ice slowly and cautiously,

for fear of tripping and falling.

Turn suddenly, slip, fall to the ground.

Then run hard across the ice

until it cracks and breaks up;

We feel Sirocco, Boreas and all the winds course through

the home despite the locked and bolted doors.

This is winter, but nonetheless it brings its own delights!

Film and sound by Tom Scott

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