Explore our guide to Vivaldi’s best-known work ‘The Four Seasons’ – a set of four radical violin concertos depicting the seasons of the year. The crux of the issue was musical ‘description’. If you’ve ...

September 2, 2019, 5:24 PM · Should I tell them the secret? It's something I've thought more than once this summer, teaching several of my students the complicated 16th-note passages in the first and ...

Violinist Andrew Manze (MAN-zee) is a proponent of the notion that much of Baroque music is improvised, that what's written on the page is an outline to be filled in by the performers. That approach ...

The Four Seasons, composed in 1723, is one of Baroque legend Vivaldi's most famous works for violin. Here's a very special performance of one of the movements, from one of Europe's top chamber ...

FROM ELEVATOR muzak and call-centre hold-music to TV and film soundtracks, “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi supplies an inescapable backdrop to everyday life. Yet these ubiquitous earworms have a ...

We're in concert with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, from a tour stop in Columbus, Ohio. The ensemble first plays the Sinfonia from Vivaldi's opera "Giustino." Then, a movement from a Vivaldi Violin ...

Featured guest soloist James Ehnes carried with him (in the publicity for the concert) an American reviewer’s suggestion that he might well be the finest violinist alive. This is a heavy accolade to ...

Two previously unknown violin compositions by Antonio Vivaldi have been discovered in a manuscript collection in the U.K. The sonatas have been authenticated by Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot, a ...

Casting a spell over your audience as a violin virtuoso is remarkable enough. But some musicians are real overachievers. Take Dmitry Sinkovsky, who guests with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (SSO) ...

Both the title ("Vivaldi con moto") and cover art of this new release from Italian virtuoso Giuliano Carmignola - it shows him perched on a motorcycle, clearly ready to zip off into the distance - ...

From Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to his opera L’Olimpiade, here are some of the Baroque composer’s finest pieces of music. Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi may have been born over 340 years ago, but his ...