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 ...

1 The Four Seasons, Spring, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269: I. Allegro 2 The Four Seasons, Spring, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269: II. Largo e pianissimo sempre 3 The Four ...

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 ...

It must have been an amazing day for the music registrar at the library in Turin. In 1926, a party from the local Salesian community – a mission of priests founded by St John Bosco in nearby ...

The most popular guitar concerto from the Baroque era must certainly be the Guitar Concerto in D by Antonio Vivaldi. That is something of a misnomer, however, because Vivaldi actually wrote it for the ...

The only thing missing from a pair of historically informed concerts of Antonio Vivaldi concertos and sacred vocal works on Dec. 19 and 21 in Seattle will be wrought-iron screens. Vivaldi taught music ...

Venice, Italy (WHTM) He was known as The Red Priest. He was one of the best known composers and performers of the Baroque era. He wrote over 500 concertos, as well as sacred choral works, operas, ...

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 ...

1 The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto No. 1 in E Major, RV 269 "Spring": I. Allegro 2 The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto No. 1 in E Major, RV 269 "Spring": II. Largo e ...

Jupiter, a young ensemble from France, made its Carnegie Hall debut with a variety of moods and the gifted mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre. By Zachary Woolfe Our critics and writers have selected ...