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Few composers have reshaped contemporary classical music like Max Richter. His work blends minimalism, electronica and cinematic sound to create music that feels both intimate and expansive. This programme opens with Richter’s Opus 2020, a reflective piece shaped by themes of memory and time.

SCO 2026:27 Season Max Richter

Usher Hall

Aided by a variety of reference points, this three-part ballet evening delves into the world of the 1950s and ‘60s.

Scottish-born Kenneth MacMillan is one of the leading choreographers of the 20th century. His 1966 ballet «Concerto», set to the music of Shostakovich's second piano concerto, is a celebrated piece of pure choreographic poetry.

In Cathy Marston’s ballet «Mrs. Robinson» – based on the novel «The Graduate» by Charles Webb – a recent college graduate becomes involved with the attractive Mrs. Robinson, a married woman from his parents’ circle of friends.

Countertime

Zurich Opera House

tep into a spellbinding neoclassical programme that leads audiences on a luminous journey through emotion and awe.

Featuring the visionary works of Hans Zimmer, Ludovico Einaudi, and Max Richter, this concert blends cinematic grandeur, minimalist clarity, and haunting melodic nuance. Zimmer’s expansive compositions, like “Cornfield Chase” from Interstellar, conjure the vastness of space, while Einaudi’s delicate piano-driven pieces, such as “Petrichor”, invite quiet reflection. Richter’s poignant “Sofa Chess” and the ethereal “Infra 4” blend timeless restraint with contemporary texture.

Sounds of the Universe: Zimmer, Richter, Einaudi by Mystery Ensemble

The Stoller Hall

Rediscover centuries-old classics in a completely new light, with two works that infuse music of the Baroque period with shimmering contemporary flourishes. Following the festive splash of one of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Novelletten for Strings, David Bruce uses brief sequences from the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully to create a vibrant kaleidoscope of sound in the U.S. premiere of his Lully Loops. Afterwards, fall in love with The Four Seasons all over again through Max Richter’s mesmerizing reimagining of Vivaldi’s timeless masterpiece, which preserves the original’s emotional depth and enduring appeal for generations to come.

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Vivaldi: Recomposed

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

First Congregational Church of Berkeley

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Empress Theatre

Directed by our Leader & Principal Stephanie Gonley, this concert explores two exciting contemporary works that have been inspired by the seasons.Max Richter’s is one of foremost figures on the contemporary music scene and performances of his reimagining of The Four Seasons are not to be missed. Combining the old with the new with skill, style and sophistication this piece is a respectful reinvention of the themes and ideas behind Vivaldi’s original work to allow listeners to hear it in a different.

The Four Seasons: Piazzolla & Richter at Cadogan Hall

Cadogan Hall 

HOW DOES HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? The second Baroque concert of the season brings together guitarist JIJI and the musicians of LACO to perform masterworks from the Italian Baroque, as well as contemporary music inspired by the era from Caroline Shaw and Max Richter.

Jiji + Vivaldi

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

The Huntington

Aaron Schwebel returns to our stage to perform the entire The Four Seasons Recomposed by Richter whose re-writing of Vivaldi’s work moves it away from being the omnipresent piece of muzak that it has become. In contrast, Ligeti’s violin concerto, creating unexpected new sounds combined in novel ways, even uses mistuned string instruments, ocarinas and slide whistles to suggest Hungarian folksong. Shimmering harmonies, slow-moving, soaring melodies and rhythmic complexities and the “mad virtuosity” of the soloist’s role all contribute to the high level of excitement in this piece. Forming a bridge between the “baroque” harpsichord material in the Richter and the modern nature of Ligeti’s work, a solo harpsichord piece by Ligeti appears as a musical amuse-bouche.

Esprit Orchestra presents Violinissimo II

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Fort Myers. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons & More at Music & Arts Community Center – under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons & More

Music & Arts Community Center

A venerated 75-year-old music institution meets one of the most distinctive compositional voices in contemporary music when the Zurich Chamber Orchestra visits with selections from Max Richter’s marvelous Recomposed project. Conducting from the violin, Daniel Hope leads the orchestra in Richter’s cleverly reimagined versions of Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons. Richter’s “intriguing and imaginative” (The Guardian) score de- and re-constructs Vivaldi with inspiration drawn from electronic and club music, minimalist concert music, and recording studio techniques, creating a musical universe both familiar and strikingly fresh that has been a huge hit with audiences. Complementing Richter’s Vivaldi odyssey, the accomplished Zurich players also perform two timeless works for string orchestra—Elgar’s exhilarating Introduction and Allegro and Mendelssohn’s lively D minor violin concerto.

Zurich Chamber Orchestra

University of California, Berkeley

Vivaldi’s most popular collection of violin concertos is paired with Max Richter’s modern classic, where the Baroque composer’s music is reinvented in a lush, minimalistic masterpiece.

Composer

Max Richter

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Oct 22, 2026

SCO 2026:27 Season Max Richter · Usher Hall

5 - 14 Sep, 2025

Countertime · Opernhaus Zürich

Future and recently performed repertoire

Mrs. Braddock in Mrs. Robinson by Davies

Opernhaus Zürich

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