Concerto for Violin Boris Begelman, Violin Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor Concerto for Violin and strings Boris Begelman, Violin Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor ...

The violinist Giuliano Carmignola is pictured on his motorbike on the cover of this collection of six concertos played "con moto", and the sound is indeed hard-driven and exciting, full of those ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...

There is a glut of new Vivaldi recordings at the moment. This disc, with Viktoria Mullova playing five of his violin concertos with the period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, is an impressive issue, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...