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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 ...

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 ...

Chatter celebrates its 200th Santa Fe Concert with a 21st-century take on an 18th-century classic, Max Richter's "Vivaldi —The Four Seasons Recomposed." ...

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 ...

Both the title ("Vivaldi con moto") and cover art of this new release from Italian virtuoso Giuliano Carmignola - it shows him perched on a motorcycle, clearly ready to zip off into the distance - ...

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 ...