Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons

Max Richter's Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons comes to St George's Church on Saturday 22 August, performed by the Mystery Ensemble. It's a reimagining of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, the Baroque cycle that almost everyone knows, but seen through Richter's lens of minimalism and postmodernism. Rather than a straight cover, he takes the original material and loops, shifts, and rearranges it, so the familiar melodies are still there, just working in a different way.

If you're not familiar with Richter, he's spent a lot of his career working at that intersection of classical music and contemporary minimalism. Recomposed is one of his best-known projects, and it's exactly what the title says: he's taken Vivaldi's seasons and rebuilt them. The Mystery Ensemble will be the ones bringing it to life on the night, so you'll hear the whole cycle played through from start to finish.

It's the kind of thing that works as well if you've never set foot in a concert hall as it does if you've spent your life listening to the classics. If you know The Four Seasons inside out, the interest is in how he's changed it; if you don't, it just sounds like a piece of modern music that happens to be built from something very old. It's a good fit for anyone who likes classical music, minimalism, or just a bit of something different on a Saturday evening.

The concert runs from 18:30 to 19:30 at St George's Church, St George's Road, Brighton, BN2 1ED. Tickets are available to book online, though the price is listed as TBC for now.