The Venice Baroque Orchestra touches down in Chicago for a tour stop concert at the University of Chicago. We hear them play their specialty — music by Vivaldi. Guliano Carmignola is the violinist in ...

Concerto for Violin and Strings in E, Op.8, No.1, R.269 "La Primavera": 1. Allegro Concerto for Violin and Strings in E, Op.8, No.1, R.269 "La Primavera": 2. Largo ...

In this series, Classical 91.7's music librarian Chris Hathaway reviews new additions to our ever-growing CD library. This month, Chris reviews the piano music of Judith Lang Zaimont (some of it new) ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

Looking for some Vivaldi CDs? Try Amazon.com and click on the Baroque composer’s name. You will be confronted with 2,143 releases. Narrow your search to “The Four Seasons,” and the choices are still ...

The only thing missing from a pair of historically informed concerts of Antonio Vivaldi concertos and sacred vocal works on Dec. 19 and 21 in Seattle will be wrought-iron screens. Vivaldi taught music ...

It's not often you get to hear a world premiere on a concert dedicated to the music of 18th-century composer Antonio Vivaldi and his contemporaries, but Vivaldi by Candlelight music director Gerald ...

The old claim that Vivaldi didn’t write 500 different concertos, just the same one 500 times, has been disproved again. This time, delightfully, at the opening event of the 21st annual Baroque Music ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Let us not forget that Herbert von Karajan used to perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Berlin Philharmonic.

A flute concerto by Vivaldi not seen for 250 years has been discovered at the National Archives of Scotland. Andrew Woolley, a research fellow at Southampton University, came across the work when ...