(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Movements: No. 1 in E, 'Spring', RV269 Ars Antiqua Austria Gunar Letzbor, Director, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, ...
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons are four violin concertos depicting the seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. They are some of the most extravagant examples of music that tells a story (“program music ...
Maxim Vengerov joins violinists Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz, Menahem Breuer, conductor Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic for Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B minor. We hear the opening ...
It starts with a shimmer of something strange and soft, an ambient mist of strings that's both electronic and acoustic. Then something weird happens. Out of these shifting sonic tides comes an ...
Like many an old saw, the one about Vivaldi writing the same concerto 500 times has a modicum of truth. You can’t reinvent the wheel every week. Prolific composers, and especially prolific composers ...
Jonathan Yuen Siu-him, not Jonathan Yuen Yee-hang, performed the encore. Just how interchangeable are the skills of a viola player and a violinist? In a concert with the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, ...
Video recordings by single instruments and singers from the BBC Orchestras and Choirs.
Violinist Andrew Manze (MAN-zee) is a proponent of the notion that much of Baroque music is improvised, that what's written on the page is an outline to be filled in by the performers. That approach ...
Casting a spell over your audience as a violin virtuoso is remarkable enough. But some musicians are real overachievers. Take Dmitry Sinkovsky, who guests with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (SSO) ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Let us not forget that Herbert von Karajan used to perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Berlin Philharmonic.
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