Harriet Constable explores Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà, the girls’ orphanage where Vivaldi taught and composed ...

Brace yourself for the sound of classical music lovers grinding their teeth. The revered German classical recording company DG, which was once home to luminaries such as Herbert von Karajan, the ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

Antonio Vivaldi, “Sinkovsky Plays & Sings Vivaldi”, La Voce Strumentale, Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin, countertenor, conductor), naïve Bird-trills, little shivers, subaltern voices, creaks and accents: ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Vivaldi is the exceptional new recording of the much loved Vivaldi “Four ...

The word Études conjures negative associations for musicians. They’re studies. Which suggests endless practice. As New York-based Jeremy Denk says in his notes, they’re pieces which can crush a ...

Tom Service: Vivaldi's 332nd birthday is marked today by a Google doodle. Here are three reasons why he's immortal Tom Service: Purcell and Vivaldi are all very well, but it's a modern, avant-garde ...

It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to ...

No sooner had the French-Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux made a superb San Francisco Symphony debut in Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" last month than this Vivaldi recital disc showed up in the ...