Vivaldi Metal Project - The Four Seasons '2016

Tracks list

The Vivaldi Metal Project is a music creation born from an idea conceived and
developed by Italian keyboard player, composer and producer MISTHERIA (solo
artist, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Rock, Roy Z, Artlantica).

The project is a symphonic-metal opera based on Antonio Vivaldi’s Baroque
masterwork “The Four Seasons”, featuring more than 130 amazing metal
and classical artists, orchestra, a string quartet and three choirs from all
over the world. The album features 14 tracks - all the movements from Antonio
Vivaldis original score plus two original new songs written by MISTHERIA. The
impressive roster of artists probably makes this titanic album the biggest
all-star project ever!

Back in 2013, MISTHERIA started thinking about making a metal version of
“The Four Seasons”, a masterpiece that he loved and kept listening
to since his childhood. MISTHERIA started to play and record all the movements
on the piano but then felt that a parallel symphonic-metal version would have
been the perfect continuation. Therefore, he recorded and uploaded a short
trailer on the web to start engaging musicians. A few days later, Italian
bassist and composer Alberto Rigoni (solo artist, TwinSpirits, Kim Bingham, The
Italians, BADASS), who had already collaborated with Mistheria by recording bass
on his previous solo album “Dragon Fire”, learned about the project
and contacted MISTHERIA offering his support to work on the project as
co-producer. Also, MISTHERIA made the “innovative” choice - never
done so far - to add lyrics and singers to “The Four Seasons” which,
as composed by Vivaldi, is an instrumental work. For this important task, he
invited Douglas R. Docker who perfectly translated the producers concept into
brilliant lyrics. Additional lyrics were written by Mistheria, Rob Rock and
Lance King.

A cast of 10 awesome arrangers joined MISTHERIA creating epic and memorable
music, combining a standard metal band lineup with strings, orchestra and choir:
Douglas R. Docker, Francesco Dall’O’, Frank Caruso, Gabriels,
Keiko Kumagai, Nicolas Waldo, Pawel Penksa, Tomas Varnagiris, Yannis
Androulakakis and Zhivko Koev.

The cast furthermore includes performances by Mark Boals (Malmsteen, Royal
Hunt), Fabio Lione (Rhapsody of Fire, Angra), Edu Falaschi (Almah), Rob Rock
(Impellitteri), Mike Lepond (SymhonyX), Dani Löble (Helloween), Ruud Jolie
(Within Temptation), Mark Cross (Firewind, Scorpions), Steve Di Giorgio
(Testament), Rolf Pilve (Stratovarius), Victor Smolski (Rage, Almanac), Ruben
Israel (Delain), John Macaluso (ARK), Marco Sfogli (James Labrie), Chris Caffery
(Savatage), Mark Wood (Trans Siberian Orchestra), Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork),
Atma Anur (Tony MacAlpine), Vitalij Kuprij, Anna Portalupi (Tarja Turunen), Sean
Tibbetts (Kamelot), Martijn Peters (Stream of Passion) and many more.

It took more than 2 years of intensive non-stop hard work to get the album done.
Mixed and mastered by Ivan Moni Bidin at “Artesonika” recording
studio in Italy and assisted by Fabio DAmore, the album is a full 74 minutes of
intense, passionate, fascinating, powerful and majestic experience!

Production, ideation, concept and artistic direction by MISTHERIA. Co-produced
by Alberto Rigoni.

Tracklist:
01. Vivaldi Metal Project - Escape from Hell (4:56)
02. Vivaldi Metal Project - The Illusion of Eternity (5:05)
03. Vivaldi Metal Project - Vita (5:43)
04. Vivaldi Metal Project - Euphoria (6:09)
05. Vivaldi Metal Project - Sun of God (6:11)
06. Vivaldi Metal Project - Immortal Soul (4:42)
07. Vivaldi Metal Project - Thunderstorm (5:32)
08. Vivaldi Metal Project - The Age of Dreams (4:23)
09. Vivaldi Metal Project - Alchemy (8:27)
10. Vivaldi Metal Project - Stige (3:12)
11. Vivaldi Metal Project - The Meaning of Life (4:09)
12. Vivaldi Metal Project - The Final Hour (3:15)
13. Vivaldi Metal Project - Grande Madre (4:47)
14. Vivaldi Metal Project - Doomsday (7:23)

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