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 ...

Baroque specialists La Serenissima follow up there award-winning 2018 album Vivaldi x2 with another sparkling collection of Vivaldi concertos for pairs of instruments. Violinist and director Adrian ...

Julian Lloyd Webber joins his cellist wife for his 'farewell' album. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 22 September 2014. This latest recording from Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber will have added ...

Vivaldi's last great set of printed concertos was La cetra (''The lyre''), published by Le Cene in Amsterdam in 1727. All but one of the 12 concertos are for solo violin; the exception is the ninth in ...

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 ...