The Venice Baroque Orchestra touches down in Chicago for a tour stop concert at the University of Chicago. We hear them play their specialty — music by Vivaldi. Guliano Carmignola is the violinist in ...

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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 ...

Looking for some Vivaldi CDs? Try Amazon.com and click on the Baroque composer’s name. You will be confronted with 2,143 releases. Narrow your search to “The Four Seasons,” and the choices are still ...

A flute concerto by Vivaldi not seen for 250 years has been discovered at the National Archives of Scotland. Andrew Woolley, a research fellow at Southampton University, came across the work when ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are zillions of violin concertos by Vivaldi, but it's a surprise to find so many for the bassoon, at that time a relatively undeveloped instrument. Possibly written for a court player, or for an ...

If music was a numbers game, this composer would be the undisputed greatest. He wrote a lot of music. In fact, people who aren’t fans of his describe his music as being "cookie-cutter" or "samey." ...

The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras ...