This may be reason why there is such disparity in the first place. Most solutions have been settled with a majority ruling from the vast discography for this work, and often are not what our modern ears are used to tonally. The current full scores disagree on what one should play, and even my survey of around 50 of the major recordings are still divided, with up to five different versions for one passage. The autograph does not exist, and the two copies that do have some differences. The Four Seasons have a lot of opportunity for failure as an arrangement. This arrangement does not take such liberties nor make such detrimental sacrifices. Other solutions to logistical problems result in distasteful octave displacements and un-pianistic writing. Farina’s version is also a worthy attempt, but rewrites passages too often, often under-representing or over-shooting the pianists ability. Pierre Gouin’s organ arrangement also deserves acknowledgement for being a wonderful arrangement accurately representing Vivaldi’s work.

A recent one by Roberto Novegno, and an older one by Guido Farina published by Ricordi in 1956. Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Arranged and Performed on Piano Live by Justin BirdĪpart from some incomplete arrangements of select movements, and many recorded versions, there are two complete piano versions printed prior to this one.

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