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I released my arrangement of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi on Convivium Records in June 2022. It is the first arrangement of this work for solo harp and the music is being performed in concert across the UK in 2022.

So, what is it about the music that compelled me to add yet another album of the most recorded classical work in history and a harp arrangement at that?

“Simply, it is the way in which the music so brilliantly communicates our extraordinary relationship with nature. Each of the concertos depicts the season musically but they are also each preceded by a sonnet, presumably written by Vivaldi, which tells myriad details about our response to this eternal cycle. Lines from the sonnets are woven into the music inviting the listener to join the composer on a human reaction to the weather as dogs bark, the wind blows and wasps buzz. When combining the orchestral and solo violin parts to make my harp arrangement, I created a display of virtuosity, in which the harp showcases the breadth of its colour palette, and the harpist gives a display of technical prowess.” Keziah Thomas

Audience Reviews:

“Thank you for a wonderful concert in Cambridge last week. It was a brilliant adaptation and interpretation of the Four Seasons for the harp, and brought out the pastoral beauty and excitement of the original. I have seen performances of the concertos on traditional stringed instruments but can say yours was easily one of the best. A real delight” Steve, July 2022

“I thought your arrangement was amazing - such vibrancy and energy and so many different sounds and effects… and so brilliantly played!” Jenny, June 2022

“I was wondering how the Four Seasons would work without an orchestra but it was WONDERFUL, and you played it with an infectious passion that made it all the better!” Cedric, June 2022

“Your interpretation of the Vivaldi's seasons is of infinite sweetness and rare sensuality. I closed my eyes and saw the notes sparkling between your hands. It was music of heaven”. Ben, August 2022

Press Reviews:

“This arrangement views the sonnets in something of a new interpretive light. I would not have thought a harp could bring out such interesting nuances to this well-worn music, but Thomas has created an arrangement that I think would have obtained Vivaldi’s approval. An accessible and brilliant arrangement of Vivaldi’s iconic Seasons” ★★★★★ Fanfare Magazine, June 2022

“A magical, shimmering quality” BBC Music Magazine, September 2022

“Keziah Thomas’s harp transcription is beautifully played. Having just one player allows Thomas a degree of rhythmic flexibility that feels exactly right; numbers like the slow movement of “Spring” are delicious. I like the moments where everything feels stripped to its essentials; the hushed middle section of “Summer” really works, the harp’s lowest notes chiming out like bells. And check out how Thomas reinvents the opening of “Winter”, an unlikely mixture of seductive warmth and bitter cold” The Arts Desk, August 2022

“Keziah Thomas’s glorious arrangements of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, the first ever for harp. Describing her desire to play these masterpieces—a mash-up of both solo and orchestral lines—she looks to the larger set from which they derive, “The Contest between Harmony and Invention,” and suggests she’s won that contest by searching out bountiful timbres resulting in a wholly new and engaging sound world” Harp Column Magazine, November 2022

“Keziah has envisioned these Vivaldi concerti for the modern harp, and the range of colour and invention contained therein is breathtaking. Story-telling is central to these works, written at a time before programmatic music was even called that. Keziah immediately immerses us in the narrative with such ingenuity it is as though we are living it ourselves. Quite apart from these noble qualities of communication and musicality, her technique is simply effortless: her way with chords, octaves, scales and harmonics is pure quicksilver.” HARP, the magazine of the UKHA, December 2022