The concept of “The Eight Seasons” has been done many times all over the world as well as a few times in South Africa.
It is a compilation of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Concertos (Le Quattro Stagioni) for Violin & String Orchestra, together with Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas).
All of those would be normally played with a Solo Violin & String orchestra which is the original intention of Vivaldi but not of Piazzolla. Piazzolla’s original version was for his Tango Quinteto.
In this production we’d have 2 well known celebrated bands from Cape Town sharing the stage and giving us “The Eight Seasons”.
In this case we would have the original Piazzolla’s Four Seasons version for a Tango Quartet, combined with an arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for a Trio of Violin, Accordion and Bass Guitar.

CT Tango Ensemble
Stanislav Angelov – Accordion
Petrus De Beer – Violin
Albert Combrink – Piano
Charles Lazar – Double Bass

World Cafè
Petrus de Beer – Violin
Stanislav Angelov – Accordion         
Schalk Joubert – Bass Guitar