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Summer 1st Movement
Summer 2nd Movement
Summer 3rd Movement
Summer
It is the heat’s season, Vivaldi tells us that the high temperatures affect men and animals alike with a slowness sensation and doze that it describes musically this way, also describes to us how the cucu in the warm nights of summer sings rhythmically, we also listen to the languid song of a lark in the warm summer sunset.
In the second movement a farmer has returned home, after an arduous day of work, tired tries to sleep but a thunderclap in the sky announces a storm that interrupts his dream, this scene repeats itself several times and it is united to the third movement that describes the forces of the nature untied in a terrible storm.
Ángeles Saavedra, (2010). Antonio Vivaldi and the "Four Seasons" explained
SUMMER (CONCERTO NO. 2) Vivaldi's Sonnet
Under the merciless sun
Languishes man and flock; the pine tree burns, The cuckoo begins to sing and at once
Join in the turtle doves and the goldfinch.
A gentle breeze blows, but Boreas
Joins battle suddenly with his neighbour, And the shepherd weeps because overhead Hangs the dreaded storm, and his destiny.
His tired limbs are robbed of their rest
By his fear of the lightning and the heavy thunder And by the furious swarm of flies and hornets.
Alas, his fears are well founded
There is thunder and lightning in the sky And the hail cuts down the lofty ears of corn