He's one of the defining figures of Baroque music - and of classical music in general. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi - Venetian composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, one-time Catholic priest - is a hugely ...

Today, Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi’s series of violin concertos, “The Four Seasons,” is instantly recognizable. However, after its celebrated debut during Europe’s Baroque period in the 1700s, it ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

A recent family concert introduced kids to the music of Antonio Vivaldi and the 'musical conversation' of a Baroque concert.

It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to ...

No sooner had the French-Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux made a superb San Francisco Symphony debut in Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" last month than this Vivaldi recital disc showed up in the ...

Michael Abels writes scores for Jordan Peele. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar.” Now, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center shows off his classical side. By Anastasia Tsioulcas “In ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Imagine being a music scholar whose nose is constantly buried in dusty archives looking for who knows what. Then one day, after years of research, you make ...

Eric Silberger and 12-year-old South Florida violin prodigy Amanda Kobayashi Nunez isn’t simply an opportunity to explore Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons — it’s a chance to lay the foundation for a better, ...

Have a challenging mental task ahead of you? Try using Spring from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as background music. The Mozart Effect—the notion that listening to certain pieces of classical music can ...

Classical guitarist Stephanie Jones has released a version of Argentine composer and bandoneon master Astor Piazzolla’s suite of seasonal tangos, “Estaciones Porteñas.” (Jakob Schmidt) Perspective by ...