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 - ...

Known as the "red priest" because of his hair color and his membership in the clergy, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was the most original and influential Italian composer of his generation. He wrote ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

If you know and like the Four Seasons, chances are you won't be disappointed with the 56th volume of the Naïve label's ongoing Vivaldi series. The selection of six concertos for two violins (RV523, ...