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 ...

(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(La) cetra' Holland Baroque Society Rachel Podger, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, Composer A few years ago I was impressed, listening to the Holland Baroque Society’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a glut of new Vivaldi recordings at the moment. This disc, with Viktoria Mullova playing five of his violin concertos with the period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, is an impressive issue, ...

Yet another Vivaldi disc, this time containing five previously unrecorded violin concertos from his gawp-inducing output of 240 works in the genre. Vivaldi's detractors argue that his music sounds ...

Concerto for Violin Boris Begelman, Violin Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor Concerto for Violin and strings Boris Begelman, Violin Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor ...

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 ...

Vivaldi was known to have benefited from several great violinists where he worked, at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. One in particular, by the name of Anna Maria, was the dedicatee of more than ...