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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are zillions of violin concertos by Vivaldi, but it's a surprise to find so many for the bassoon, at that time a relatively undeveloped instrument. Possibly written for a court player, or for an ...

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 ...

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 ...

This unsettling and unusual disc offers a vision of Vivaldi that is worlds away from the comforting platitudes of FM radio. Even by the evolving standards of period-instrument performance, the Venice ...

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 ...

The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras ...