The Venice Baroque Orchestra touches down in Chicago for a tour stop concert at the University of Chicago. We hear them play their specialty — music by Vivaldi. Guliano Carmignola is the violinist in ...
Vivaldi's last great set of printed concertos was La cetra (''The lyre''), published by Le Cene in Amsterdam in 1727. All but one of the 12 concertos are for solo violin; the exception is the ninth in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Internationally renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter, 12-year-old Sylvia Pine, will close Symphoria’s Jan. 27 Masterworks concert with a performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
Our 25th birthday celebration continues with a dazzling performance of Chopin by a gifted 16-year-old cellist. We are treated to a performance of Vivaldi by a young bassoonist and witness a ...
He was the flame-haired musical star of 18th century Venice, known to his fans as Il Prete Rosso – the Red Priest. Antonio Vivaldi's reputation, however, spread further than the confines of the ...
The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras ...