Vivaldi’s ubiquitous “Four Seasons” has charmed many of us to sleep about this composer. But the Venice Baroque Orchestra’s program Sunday at Walt Disney Concert Hall woke us up to Vivaldi’s gorgeous, ...

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 ...

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Concerto for Strings Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Ottavio Dantone Accademia Bizantina Concerto for Strings Accademia Bizantina Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Ottavio Dantone Concerto for Strings Ottavio ...

Stravinsky once sneered that the ever-modish Vivaldi wrote the same concerto five hundred times. Clearly, the Russian modernist’s concept of originality was worlds away from that of the Italian ...

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 ...

Orchestra Hall will swell with baroque precision April 25-27 when the Detroit Symphony Orchestra celebrates "Vivaldi's Gloria," with four works by one of the classical canon's biggest crowd-pleasers.

Known as the "red priest" because of his hair color and his membership in the clergy, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was the most original and influential Italian composer of his generation. He wrote ...

This weekend, the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra presents both masterpieces in two concerts called “Sultry Strings,” featuring ...

There are many ways to measure devotion to the arts, but directing half a Baroque Festival when having just battled pneumonia surely deserves its own saintly order. Yet there was Kenneth Zammit ...