Over the past few months, our Know the Score series introduced 20 great composers. But what of the many we couldn’t write about? Martin Kettle suggests some other names whose music is well worth ...

Composer of The Four Seasons, Vivaldi was little more than a footnote for 200 years after his death, until a 20th-century innovation restored his worldwide fame. Minister of musicAn anonymous portrait ...

Faithful followers of the Toronto Star Musical Moments will recognize TSO Violin Sergei Nikonov as a repeat contributor to this series. Nikonov shared a Musical Moment on Nov. 12, 2020 with a wistful ...

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 ...

Vivaldi’s masterwork, forgotten after his death, found new popularity when it was co-opted by Italian nationalists. By Phil Hebblethwaite At the end of the Second World War, the Italian conductor ...

Antonio Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos. Today, most people know four of them. But those four — commonly known as “The Four Seasons” — have become part of our cultural fabric. They may not even ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Allan Kozinn SOME people hate Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” for pretty much the same reasons others love it: it is an exceptionally vivid example of ...

Thirty-second loop introduced in 2006 to obtain a ‘cost-effective solution’ replaced by ‘calming’ 20-minute mix Da da-da-da da da-da … Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is no longer the soundtrack to millions of ...