This composition was released in 2012 and has received widespread acclaim. Richter recomposed around 75% of the original Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" music by using loops, phasing effects and synths. As an example, in the first movement of the "Spring Concerto", Richter exploits existing music material (the singing of the birds that appears in the first solo of the violin) and modifies it though various ways to create new musical material.
At the same time, Richter has given to his music a minimalistic and ambient "feel" while its rhythms are those of contemporary dance music. In the music, there are some parts that Richter has left almost untouched (as he says "they are just Vivaldi") and others where, as Richter says, "there is basically only a homeopathic [very small] dose of Vivaldi". And he continues "...but that's not to say that the DNA of Vivaldi is not all over the place" as "pretty much everything is infused by Vivaldi atoms or haunted by his ghost".
Max Richter recomposed this piece as "an act of love towards this fantastic masterpiece". He did not want to erase the original from our memory but to listen to it from a new and fresh perspective. "My aim was to fall in love with it again-and I have", he says. Although there have been some already anticipated criticisms to Richter's recomposing the "Four Seasons", listening to this innovative and powerful work will most probably make you fall in love not only with the original music but also its re-imagined contemporary version.