Explore our guide to Vivaldi’s best-known work ‘The Four Seasons’ – a set of four radical violin concertos depicting the seasons of the year. The crux of the issue was musical ‘description’. If you’ve ...

September 2, 2019, 5:24 PM · Should I tell them the secret? It's something I've thought more than once this summer, teaching several of my students the complicated 16th-note passages in the first and ...

Vivaldi Violin Concertos, RV 187, 217, 235, 321, 366 & 387 Julien Chauvin (violin); Le Concert de la Loge Naïve OP 30585 62:11 mins Hard on the heels of the seventh volume of Naïve’s survey of Vivaldi ...

Two discs could not more thoroughly discredit Stravinsky’s mindless remark about Vivaldi: ‘a dull fellow who could compose the same form over... and over’. Every one of these 36 movements reveals some ...

Antonio Vivaldi’s (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) influence on the development of Baroque music was immense. He ignited transformations in music for the church, the opera house and the concert hall. But ...

Listen to Venezuelan violinist Baltazar Monaca performing Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in A Minor – on what has been described as ‘the world’s smallest violin.’ Source: The Violin Channel ...