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The Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla originally scored his hugely popular snapshots of the different seasons in Buenos Aires for a mixed group of five instruments that included the bandoneon and piano. These days, they are often heard in an arrangement – or more precisely, a re-imagining of the work - for a string orchestra and solo violin made by the Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov. Here is that arrangement of Piazzolla’s Spring in Buenos Aires played by the American violinist Joshua Bell and one of UK's most distinguished chamber orchestras, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

[Photo: Violinist Joshua Bell and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields at the 2021 Â鶹Éç Proms. Credit: Chris Christodoulou]