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 ...

Vivaldi was known to have benefited from several great violinists where he worked, at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. One in particular, by the name of Anna Maria, was the dedicatee of more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

It must have been an amazing day for the music registrar at the library in Turin. In 1926, a party from the local Salesian community – a mission of priests founded by St John Bosco in nearby ...

Venice, Italy (WHTM) He was known as The Red Priest. He was one of the best known composers and performers of the Baroque era. He wrote over 500 concertos, as well as sacred choral works, operas, ...

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 ...

Jean-Guihen Queyras here tackles eight of the 27 Vivaldi concertos written for the cello, along with two brief Sinfonias by his contemporary Antonio Caldara, weak consommés at the side of the Venetian ...

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 ...

FOR THE EARS Go Bach to the Concert Hall and Get a Handel on the Holidays Whil Pro Musica packages its bounty of year-end concerts as a Bach Festival, they have a wider range than the convenient title ...

Outside Davies Symphony Hall, a bright green poster promised "A Seasonal Tour." Its main draw: Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons," his most famous work and indeed one of the most familiar pieces of ...