Vivaldi’s ubiquitous “Four Seasons” has charmed many of us to sleep about this composer. But the Venice Baroque Orchestra’s program Sunday at Walt Disney Concert Hall woke us up to Vivaldi’s gorgeous, ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Posterity has acquired a lopsided view of Antonio Vivaldi. His picturesque set of violin concertos known as Le ...
Concerto for Strings Simon Standage, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Concerto for Strings Simon Standage, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Concerto for ...
(12) Concerti grossi, '(L')estro armonico', Movements: No. 3 in G, RV310 Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Peter Howard Jensen, Guitar (12) Concerti grossi, '(L')estro armonico', ...
Stravinsky once sneered that the ever-modish Vivaldi wrote the same concerto five hundred times. Clearly, the Russian modernist’s concept of originality was worlds away from that of the Italian ...
The violinist Giuliano Carmignola is pictured on his motorbike on the cover of this collection of six concertos played "con moto", and the sound is indeed hard-driven and exciting, full of those ...
Known as the "red priest" because of his hair color and his membership in the clergy, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was the most original and influential Italian composer of his generation. He wrote ...
The great Baroque composer used music to paint an idyllic country scene and gave us a timeless work of art. The leaves turn golden, the mornings are crisp, you turn the heating on for the first time ...