Experiencing it, I felt as though I was being catapulted onto another plane, reverberated through the cosmos by this epiphanic soundworld. When Max Richter's Recomposed first exploded into our collective ears almost a decade ago, a 59-minutes-28-seconds sonic starburst, the effect on me, as for so many people, was total.

This exclusive variant also contains an additional signed art print. This special, hand-numbered color vinyl edition features marbled yellow/red vinyl, a 4-page booklet, and three art prints on matte art paper with photos from the recording session. This CD edition is presented in a 6-panel digipack with a 20-page full-color booklet. The new recording was produced on an analogue mixing desk at Richter’s own cutting edge Studio Richter Mahr, with the composer himself playing an early Moog from the 1970s.

In this “alternative rendering”, Chineke! – the groundbreaking British ensemble consisting of majority Black, Asian and ethnically diverse musicians – and soloist, American violinist Elena Urioste, play on gut strings and period instruments, the kind that Vivaldi would have heard and played in his own time. We hadn’t heard anything like that, ever… A former member of the Beaux Arts Trio, Hope has long championed both contemporary music and the standard classical repertoire, making him the ideal soloist for Richter’s piece.When Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Recomposed first exploded into our collective ears almost a decade ago the effect for so many people was total. Max Richter’s partners with British violinist Daniel Hope and the orchestra l'Arte del Mondo (whose artistic director is the violinist Werner Ehrhardt). His 'post-classical idiom' draws inspiration from influences like electronic music, punk, club music, psychedelic rock. Affection is an integral part of Max Richter’s 'Vivaldi Recomposed'. 'Anything that a composer writes is part of a conversation with music that has gone before', he says. I hear it in supermarkets and it’s always turning up in TV ads.' He approached his 'Vivaldi Recomposed' project as both an admirer of Vivaldi and a composer. As the composer Max Richter tells it, 'the piece is part of the musical landscape and a part of my daily life. Vivaldi's The Four Seasons could easily be the most famous piece of classical music ever composed.

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