Violinists Hina and Fiona Khuong-Huu join the South Bend Symphony for a unique blend of Vivaldi and Piazzolla at Notre Dame's ...

He's one of the defining figures of Baroque music - and of classical music in general. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi - Venetian composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, one-time Catholic priest - is a hugely ...

Vivaldi’s music provoked excitement, fear and wonder. That’s why we’re performing it today alongside Metallica and Muse The Ospedale della Pietà was a convent, an orphanage and also a music school in ...

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 ...

Today, Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi’s series of violin concertos, “The Four Seasons,” is instantly recognizable. However, after its celebrated debut during Europe’s Baroque period in the 1700s, it ...

Have a challenging mental task ahead of you? Try using Spring from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as background music. The Mozart Effect—the notion that listening to certain pieces of classical music can ...

Tonight, I am listening to "Hell's Angels" by La Serenissima, led by Adrian Chandler, released on Signum Classics on October ...

Born in Venice, he trained as both a violinist and priest. When he was 25, Vivaldi was appointed the 'master of violin' at an orphanage called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà. He served in various roles ...

The violinist’s rethinking of Vivaldi’s best known work includes four new poems by (and read by) Michael Morpurgo but, placed together at the start of the disc, the music and poetry feels disconnected ...

Double Concerto for 2 Mandolins and Strings Ensemble Kapsberger Rolf Lislevand, Mandolin Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Trio Sonata for Violin, Lute and Continuo Rolf Lislevand, Lute Ensemble Kapsberger ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...