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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexi Kenney transforms Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" into a dramatic, deeply physical performance as the San Francisco Symphony ...

This unsettling and unusual disc offers a vision of Vivaldi that is worlds away from the comforting platitudes of FM radio. Even by the evolving standards of period-instrument performance, the Venice ...

FROM ELEVATOR muzak and call-centre hold-music to TV and film soundtracks, “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi supplies an inescapable backdrop to everyday life. Yet these ubiquitous earworms have a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

BAROQUE 2000 presents another programme of rarely performed gems at its next concert on Sunday 30 November at the Church of the Monastery, Mariannhill at 3pm. In Marcello's Oboe Concerto the soloist ...