In the liner comments for Recomposed, Richter says that he “wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.”
His magnificent melding of past and present shows again that great works of art are organic things, which, in respectful hands, can be reshaped into something fresh and wondrous and altogether new. I have a feeling Vivaldi himself would be pleased with the result.
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