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 ...

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 ...

Outside Davies Symphony Hall, a bright green poster promised "A Seasonal Tour." Its main draw: Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons," his most famous work and indeed one of the most familiar pieces of ...

FROM ELEVATOR muzak and call-centre hold-music to TV and film soundtracks, “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi supplies an inescapable backdrop to everyday life. Yet these ubiquitous earworms have a ...

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 ...

The violinist’s rethinking of Vivaldi’s best known work includes four new poems by (and read by) Michael Morpurgo but, placed together at the start of the disc, the music and poetry feels disconnected ...

To mark what would have been master composer Antonio Vivaldi's 332nd birthday, here are ten pieces of trivia about his most famous work. 1. Composed in 1723, the Four Seasons violin concertos were ...

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in SF Bay Area. Get your tickets now to discover Vivaldi and more at ...

French choreographer Mourad Merzouki blends hip-hop with Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" in a groundbreaking performance at ...

“More mud than mist these days. More rain than shine. Leaves to scuffle; berries and nuts to squirrel away,” reads a familiar voice. “The house hunkers down ...