Needles & Grooves AotM /// Vol. 13 - July 2020 /// Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

Joe Mac said:
Yours must have been longer than that. You had clues to lyrics in songs of an album that was new to most of of and pictures of trees from google earth...
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I'm convinced mine could have gone unsolved if I hadn't given the clue about (telling people to look in) the PopTart thread, or at least it would have been gotten at the last second, but I had initially planned to build the hype with it being the frontrunner but once it was guessed it was immediately recognized as the pick, so that plan kinda fell through 😂

I know my clues and thread were a bit unconventional, but I'm still happy with how it turned out and I'm glad people enjoyed the album I chose!
 
gaporter said:
I haven't 😔 I may buy it blindly soon and just wait to give it a listen when the record comes in, I trust @Alexander's impeccable taste. Plus I'm hoping to be a N&G AOTM completionist someday :D
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I don’t think you’ll be disapointed. What I like about it is that its not a faithful baroque performance of a classical standard, it’s more of a modernist, minimal reinterpretation of the piece.
 
supahypeag said:
Hey @gaporter and @debianlinux , did y’all get a chance to listen to this album yet? I’m really curious how y’all came down on it
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I did yesterday. It’s fine. It’s about what I expected. I can see why people like it a lot. It’s kind of a toes in the water classical album if you will which works well for a general audience. I would have preferred a more frahmish approach with arpeggios and echoes and such.
 
Alexander said:
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All jokes aside, it won't be for everyone. Thank you for taking the time to listen to it and give it a go.
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I was considering the overall approach of picking an album for the forum and deciding it would be classical. Going through that exercise this is a damn fine pick in that regard. I would liken it to the Khemmis pick in that if we're already in the territory of music that the average person is largely unexposed to from a personal listening perspective then it absolutely has to be accessible, relatable, and preferably recognizable. I suppose that applies to every pick but there's always the added criteria of balancing an attempt at novel introduction with appeasing the familiar (the Lou Reed and Mark de Clive-Low picks being fantastic examples).

Considering that Richter, in my opinion, is vastly overshadowed in his primary writing mode (namely neo.classical piano ala Infra and Sleep) and that the bulk of his work outside that realm is movie soundtracks, I would say if I were going to use Richter as my artist for the pick this is probably the best possible album to go with.

It's a great pick and hopefully opens up a lot of exploration into a sub genre I really do love. As you said, it's not for everyone and somehow despite my predilection for music along these lines I found myself in the out group this time.
 
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