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Antonio Vivaldi

August 2024

  • Antonio Vivaldi.

    Vivaldi taught Venetian orphan girls – did they help write his music in return?

    A chance discovery introduced me to the composer’s work with abandoned children. The more I learned, the more I wondered about the creative role they played in his music

December 2023

  • The Italian soprano Giorgia Paci performs the Cenerentola opera at the Boboli Gardens in Florence, Italy.

    Italian opera singing joins pizza-making on UN cultural heritage list

    Unesco describes art form as ‘means of free expression’ with cultural value ‘recognised at national and international levels’

July 2023

  • Scottish Ensemble

    Scottish Ensemble review – Anna Meredith’s electronic Vivaldi thunders and chills

    Jonathan Morton was a vibrant soloist in Meredith’s playful reimagining of The Four Seasons, in a showcase of nature-inspired gems by Jessie Montgomery, Fredrik Sjölin and more

June 2022

  • Max Richter and Yulia Mahr - Press image

    ‘Like seeing a sculpture from a different angle’: Max Richter on rewriting The Four Seasons – for the second time

    His 2012 reimagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was huge hit. So why, a decade later, is Max Richter recording it once again – this time with period instruments and a vintage synth?

February 2022

  • Claire Booth (Irene) and James Laing (Tamerlano) in Vivaldi’s Bajazet.

    Bajazet review – Vivaldi finally gets his London premiere

    Vivaldi wrote 90 operas but this is the first of his works to be staged at the ROH; Adele Thomas’s engaging production makes a strong case for this to be first of many

December 2021

  • IMG 2477 Royal Northern Sinfonia at The Fire Station, Sunderland. Photo by Mark Savage

    Royal Northern Sinfonia/Włoszczowska review – lacklustre start for new venue

    A predominantly baroque programme at this brand new concert hall found the RNS on disappointing form, although Haydn and Herschel brought drama and energy

November 2020

  • Composite image showing Arnold Schoenberg, Claudio Monteverdi and John Adams.

    Know the score
    From Vivaldi to Vaughan Williams: more musical voices who have changed our world

    Over the past few months, our Know the Score series introduced 20 great composers. But what of the many we couldn’t write about? Martin Kettle suggests some other names whose music is well worth exploring

February 2020

  • Patrick Butler

    Addio, Vivaldi! But why did it take so long for the DWP to replace its helpline music?

    Patrick Butler
  • The Department for Work and Pensions

    Benefits hotline drops anxiety-inducing Vivaldi clip as hold music

August 2019

  • Geert Chatrou

    Experience
    Experience: I’m a world-class whistler

    I do between 75 and 100 concerts a year and earn twice as much as I did as a nurse

February 2017

  • Jazz pianist Bruno Heinen

    Music blog
    Tango, dance and shred guitars: five best takes on Vivaldi's Four Seasons

    Jazz pianist Bruno Heinen has collaborated with Camerata Alma Viva for a new take on one of the most instantly recognisable classical works of all time. He picks his five favourite versions of Vivaldi’s famous composition

November 2016

  • Magdalena Kožená in the title role of Juditha at the Barbican on Wednesday.

    Juditha Triumphans review – Magdalena Kožená has done nothing finer

    Vivaldi’s rare oratorio enjoyed a staggeringly beautiful performance by Venice Baroque under Andrea Marcon, the Guildhall Consort and a wealth of soloists

October 2016

  • VIVALDI ROCKS! press image Hugo Ticciati photo: Marco Borggreve

    Music blog
    Hugo Ticciati: Vivaldi the baroque rock god

    Vivaldi’s music provoked excitement, fear and wonder. That’s why we’re performing it today alongside Metallica and Muse

February 2016

  • Adrian Chandler of La Serenissima.

    La Serenissima review – priceless Vivaldi scores like you've never heard them

    Adrian Chandler’s ensemble revives a unique version of The Four Seasons and presents an avant-garde approach that would have awed Hendrix

January 2016

  • Modo Antiquo

    The Young Vivaldi CD review – exquisite precision

    Modo Antiquo dazzle in previously unrecorded early Vivaldi

November 2015

  • Amandine Beyer

    Vivaldi: Teatro alla moda CD review – earthy, raw, brilliant

    Amandine Beyer responds brilliantly to these unpublished Vivaldi concertos for violin

August 2015

  • German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, 2006

    Music blog
    Watch Anne-Sophie Mutter play extracts from The Four Seasons at the Edinburgh international festival

    The German violinist has been playing at the Edinburgh International festival, and we’ve got an exclusive video of he

May 2015

  • Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Vivalid Rewired

    Back to baroque: Max Richter's Vivaldi remix comes full circle in Sydney

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is ‘hardcore’ for tackling his 21st century Four Seasons on the period instruments of Vivaldi’s time, says Richter

March 2015

  • Rachel Podger Brecon Baroque

    Vivaldi: L’Estro Armonico CD review – miracles of virtuosity

    Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque provide endless variety in these 12 concertos for violins and string orchestra

December 2014

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    From Pixelmator and Auxy to Microsoft Word and Gruff Rhys, the best apps for Apple’s tablet in the last 12 months
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