Sunday, November 14, 2010

Winter in Finland - music that cheers

I watched last night a wonderful DVD produced in Australia, capturing Vivaldi's Four Seasons on video with great musicians performing the respective portions in Japanese spring, Australian summer, New York's autumn and Finnish winter.
The music and the filmography leave you with wonderful imagery. But I was most impressed with the music performed by a young violinist Pekka Kuusisto in a warm farmhouse in the middle of winter.
I was lucky to find two You Tube clips of the Winter scene... so here you are, and I give the one with the folk song!