In the red corner, Baroque genius Antonio “The Four Seasons” Vivaldi.

In the blue, Astor Piazzolla, the two-fisted maestro of Tango Nuevo.

Who will triumph? The famous Venetian S.O.B. (as in ‘son of a barber’), or the feisty Argentinean whose youthful ambition to become a boxer was knocked clean out of his head by none other than Jake “Raging Bull” LaMotta?

Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla. Images courtesy WikiCommons

You’ll find out when the two composers go mano a mano in 8 Seasons: Vivaldi vs Piazzolla, a new concert presented in Sydney’s Great Synagogue in which the two composers, represented by their finest works – Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons (1718–20) and Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (1965–69) will be brought together for an evening of scintillating musical combat.

The interior of the Great Synagogue, Sydney. Photo supplied

The winner will be for the audience to judge, says Vladimir Fanshil, co-founder of the concert venture Live At Yours.

The idea harks back to the days of the European courts, he tells Limelight. “In those days it...