Vivaldi's Complete Four Seasons, Mozart's Little Night Music

Program and cast

Orchestre Hélios - Violon Solo : Glen Rouxel

Serenade No. 13 in G major, "Eine Klein Nachtmusik," K. 525—better known in English as "Une petite musique de nuit"—is a serenade for strings composed by Mozart in 1787. Its first movement begins with one of the most famous themes in classical music. It is Mozart's last serenade.

Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos, composed in 1723. It is arguably Vivaldi's most famous composition and the most frequently performed piece of music in the world. It is a violin concerto in which the soloist plays accompanied by a chamber orchestra. The content of each movement is varied and evokes each of the seasons to which it relates. For example, winter is punctuated by pizzicato notes on the upper strings, reminiscent of icy rain, while summer evokes a storm in the final movement, foreshadowed by thunder that rumbles repeatedly throughout the movement.