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 ...

Concerto for Violin and Strings Il Pomo d'Oro Dmitry Sinkovsky, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Concerto for Violin and Strings Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Dmitry Sinkovsky, Violin Il Pomo d'Oro ...

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 - ...

Concerto for Violin Boris Begelman, Violin Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor Concerto for Violin and strings Boris Begelman, Violin Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor ...

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 ...

The violinist Giuliano Carmignola is pictured on his motorbike on the cover of this collection of six concertos played "con moto", and the sound is indeed hard-driven and exciting, full of those ...

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 ...

There is a glut of new Vivaldi recordings at the moment. This disc, with Viktoria Mullova playing five of his violin concertos with the period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, is an impressive issue, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The exceptional musicians of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta will masterpieces by Bach and Vivaldi, in the beautiful setting of St Mary Le Strand, London. A hugely appealing programme designed to help you ...

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) ...