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Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons — one of the most widely recognised works of the baroque violin canon — performed in the state halls of the Polovtsov Mansion, one of the more intact late-19th-century central-Petersburg private interiors. Each of the four violin concerti carries a sonnet by Vivaldi himself as its programmatic basis; the sonnets are read alongside the music in this presentation. Language load zero for the music; sonnet readings in Russian.