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You’ve probably heard Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto (“La Primavera” in its original Italian) before. More than likely, you didn’t hear it on the radio or on Spotify or performed live, but you may have ...

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons are four violin concertos depicting the seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. They are some of the most extravagant examples of music that tells a story (“program music ...

Composer of The Four Seasons, Vivaldi was little more than a footnote for 200 years after his death, until a 20th-century innovation restored his worldwide fame. Minister of musicAn anonymous portrait ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Allan Kozinn SOME people hate Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” for pretty much the same reasons others love it: it is an exceptionally vivid example of ...

East versus West. Turn on the nightly news, and you’ll be bombarded with it, the clash of cultures and civilisations that’s fuelled a billion narratives and seems to have existed since time began.