Rick Wakeman on Vivaldi's Four Seasons

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A 2015 Arts Documentary hosted by Rick Wakeman.

Antonio Vivaldi’s the Four Seasons is the most popular piece of classical music of all time. There have been over 1000 different recordings , selling tens of millions of copies. It’s become so ubiquitous – in lifts, as phone ring tones or on call-centre answering machines – that it has been denounced as Muzak for the middle classes.

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