Antonio Lucio Vivaldi as you've never heard him before was the promise and, while I've heard a lot of Vivaldi performed on authentic instruments with regard to the performing practices of his day, I ...
A flute concerto by Vivaldi not seen for 250 years has been discovered at the National Archives of Scotland. Andrew Woolley, a research fellow at Southampton University, came across the work when ...
The spirit of Antonio Vivaldi was practically visible under the nearly ideal conditions that prevailed in Campbell Hall on Thursday night. The orchestra was not just Italian, but Venetian, harking ...
Vivaldi's concertos for recorders are works of rare theatricality. One of the plainest, most insignificant-looking and tiniest (in the case of the sopranino recorder) of musical instruments is given ...
For those used to hearing the CSO at full scale, with its famous brass section booming at full volume, this evening’s concert ...
You could call Ensemble Caprice’s 2007 CD, “Vivaldi and The Baroque Gypsies,” an exercise in compare-and-contrast — but that’s putting it far too dryly. The music, at times, is a ...
Sometimes Jennifer Bouton is at the top of the wave of sound produced by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. As a piccolo player, Bouton creates some of the highest notes in the orchestra's performances ...
If music was a numbers game, this composer would be the undisputed greatest. He wrote a lot of music. In fact, people who aren’t fans of his describe his music as being "cookie-cutter" or "samey." ...