From Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to his opera L’Olimpiade, here are some of the Baroque composer’s finest pieces of music. Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi may have been born over 340 years ago, but his ...

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 ...

In the third of four programmes across 2025 marking the 300th anniversary of the publication of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Hannah French explores the Violin Concerto in G minor, RV.315 - better known ...

It feels slightly unoriginal to begin a review by quoting that old adage, ‘the best things come to those who wait’. However, those words do feel especially pertinent for Rachel Podger’s Vivaldi Four ...

The first five times I read this poem, I never imagined that the title referred to actual music. I thought, Nah, this is just avant-garde poetry; there isn’t a Concerto No. 2 in G Minor. I wasn’t ...

You might expect most young musicians would draw on artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran for their song inspirations. But not so for 13-year-old Ellie Malonzo from Perth who turns to Vivaldi, Bach ...