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 ...

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 ...

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

Double Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings Gli Incogniti Amandine Beyer, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Giuliano Carmignola, Violin Double Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings Antonio Vivaldi, Composer ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer English Chamber Orchestra Henryk Szeryng, Violin (12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e ...

Like many an old saw, the one about Vivaldi writing the same concerto 500 times has a modicum of truth. You can’t reinvent the wheel every week. Prolific composers, and especially prolific composers ...

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 ...

A young violinist, born in 2007, is reshaping classical music. And he has a talent that’s rarely seen. The new recording is to be released on the prestigious record label Decca Classics on 20 August.

If you know and like the Four Seasons, chances are you won't be disappointed with the 56th volume of the Naïve label's ongoing Vivaldi series. The selection of six concertos for two violins (RV523, ...

Maxim Vengerov joins violinists Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz, Menahem Breuer, conductor Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic for Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B minor. We hear the opening ...

Watch these talented virtuosos balance and bow on a 12-metre floating violin winding its way around the picturesque Italian city. Venetian artist and sculptor Livio De Marchi has for decades created ...