The Four Seasons: L'inverno, op. 8 no. 4

L'inverno closes The Four Seasons with three pictures from its sonnet: teeth chattering in the frost, rain seen from beside a fire, and the slipping and falling of anyone who ventures onto the ice. The second movement, a Largo with plucked strings imitating raindrops on the window, is the best known page of the set and has been borrowed for film and advertising more often than any other Vivaldi movement. The finale ends with the winds fighting each other, and with the sonnet's line that this too brings its joys.