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 Violin and Strings Giuliano Carmignola, Violin (I) Solisti Aquilani Concerto for Violin and Strings Giuliano Carmignola, Violin (I) Solisti Aquilani Double Concerto for 2 Violins and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movements: No. 1 in E, 'Spring', RV269 Ars Antiqua Austria Gunar Letzbor, Director, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, ...

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 Concerti per vari strumenti II Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco / Gianluca Capuano Naive OP9025 46 mins. It is a little ...

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 ...

Born in Venice, he trained as both a violinist and priest. When he was 25, Vivaldi was appointed the 'master of violin' at an orphanage called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà. He served in various roles ...

In the 18th century, travelers came from all over Europe to hear Anna Maria and Chiara perform in Venice. Neither attained the wealth or the immortal fame of someone like Paganini, but composers ...