Vivaldi: The Four Seasons and Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 577 (Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, cond.; Viktoria Mullova, violin; Philips, 48:02). Whether we need another recording of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The music world is inestimably the better for Rachel Podger, baroque violin virtuoso and teacher. Everything she ...

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 - ...

Fans of the Symphony should mark their calendars for November 8, as the Lima Symphony Orchestra will be presenting Vivaldi’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Four Seasons, composed in 1723, is one of Baroque legend Vivaldi's most famous works for violin. Here's a very special performance of one of the movements, from one of Europe's top chamber ...

The exceptional musicians of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta perform a selection of Bach's magnificent Violin concertos by candlelight in the beautiful setting of St Mary Le Strand, London. A hugely ...

The exceptional musicians of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta perform a selection of Bach's magnificent Violin concertos by candlelight in the beautiful setting of St Mary Le Strand, London. A hugely ...