What Is The Background Music In This Clip?

[Colmc54]

This is a short clip from this year's Springwatch introducing the science of phenology. As I watched I became aware of some rally nice music going on in the background. I hope somebody might know what it is and who composed it as I'd love to hear it properly.

Any suggestions?

PS I did enquire via the Springwatch Facebook page but nobody replied.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrQPY2fNMU

[Fitzer]

It's a variation/interpretation of the Four Seasons by Vivaldi, the Spring movement by the sounds of things

[Colmc54]

As you say 'interpretation of' but I disagree. You have a slow melancholic chord sequence in the string section with three violins riffing (for want of a better word) beautifully over the top. Most likely I guess it came from inside the BBC itself. I hope not because it sounds too composed and clever for that.

But then again there were no vocals and the BBC knows that instrumental music is fast on it's way to being an irrelevance in the minds of the vast majority of their viewers.

So it possible wouldn't occur to them that there were still people like me out there that would like to hear, what was for them a trivial and irrelevant snippet of background sonic wallpaper properly, on it's own with no voice-over!

[ChillDoubt]

Fitzer is 100% correct.

[Colmc54]

Yes indeed. Thirty seconds into Vivaldi's 'Spring' and there it is. The orchestra stops and the three violins play the music you can hear them playing in the clip, before the orchestra comes back in again. Whoever did the music for this clip must have sampled that section and looped it. Then they recorded in the chord sequence on a string section that you hear repeating underneath the violins.

So yes the clever bit is stolen from Vivaldi's 'Spring' and the rest has been composed by someone else who, being guilty of plagiarism is unlikely to come forward and reveal himself. Probably someone at the BBC using Cubase!