Candlelight Concert: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

One of the most successful productions in the Candlelight Concerts series of “classical music concerts aimed at democratising access to classical music by allowing people all over the world to enjoy live music candlelit performances”.  The Vivaldi favourite was written as concerti for violin and orchestra, but it’s often arranged for string quartet and this is what we’ll be getting here – the players are Gulf Strings, the performance is “illuminated by thousands of candles”.  The programme includes the four movements of the Seasons, plus Karl Jenkins’s criminally underperformed concerto grosso Palladio; the players are the Gulf Strings quartet (Klaudia Olborska, Katherine Denton, Anna Boden, Rebecca Saxby). This is a new venue for the programme, which should make for an interesting evening …