Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
© 2014 Touch Press
From the makers of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony comes a similar treatment on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The app is a partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and Touch Press and is based on Max Richter’s version of the Four Seasons as performed by Daniel Hope, side-by-side with Trevor Pinnock’s rendition of Vivaldi’s original. Content includes all four movements of the Four Seasons. As the music plays, you can switch between three simultaneous video feeds or use the famous "BeatMap" feature, which was first used in The Orchestra and also in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. The feature lets you see the sounds coming from different sections of the orchestra, and isolate an individual section. Background analysis is provided by journalist Charlotte Gardner, with video commentary by Suzy Klein, Max Richter and Daniel Hope. Need to know: this is another HUGE app, weighing in at 1.89 GB.
$10.99, iPad (1.9 GB)
Teaches: classical music, orchestra, notation, Vivaldi