Violinist Andrew Manze (MAN-zee) is a proponent of the notion that much of Baroque music is improvised, that what's written on the page is an outline to be filled in by the performers. That approach ...
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 ...
Internationally renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter, 12-year-old Sylvia Pine, will close Symphoria’s Jan. 27 Masterworks concert with a performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for ...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in SF Bay Area. Get your tickets now to discover Vivaldi and more at ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the last of four programmes marking the 300th anniversary of the publication of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Hannah French explores the Violin Concerto in F major, a.k.a. Autumn. Show more In the ...
It must have been an amazing day for the music registrar at the library in Turin. In 1926, a party from the local Salesian community – a mission of priests founded by St John Bosco in nearby ...