Although we associate Vivaldi mainly with Venice because he spent pretty much the first forty years of his life there, he did, inevitably, get itchy feet as he became older. As well as wanting to ...

In concert at the Schwetzingen Festival in Germany, Ivano Zanenghi solos in the Lute Concerto, RV 93 by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), with Andrea Marcon conducting the Venice Baroque Orchestra.

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 ...

The Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, plus guitarist John Williams, plays the Largo from Antonio Vivaldi's concerto for lute and strings.

The most popular guitar concerto from the Baroque era must certainly be the Guitar Concerto in D by Antonio Vivaldi. That is something of a misnomer, however, because Vivaldi actually wrote it for the ...

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 ...

Composer of The Four Seasons, Vivaldi was little more than a footnote for 200 years after his death, until a 20th-century innovation restored his worldwide fame. Minister of musicAn anonymous portrait ...

The concluding concert of this year's Viva Vivaldi Festival, massively well-attended, was held Sunday at First Presbyterian Church on Symphony Circle. What a sight it was to see people crammed into ...