Two sisters come together for an energetic public performance of Vivaldi’s “Summer,” one of the most recognizable movements ...

Vivaldi’s music provoked excitement, fear and wonder. That’s why we’re performing it today alongside Metallica and Muse The Ospedale della Pietà was a convent, an orphanage and also a music school in ...

Struggling with a task? Need to be mega-brainy? Vivaldi's Spring from The Four Seasons will do it - and science knows. Listening to Vivaldi's Spring from The Four Seasons could have beneficial effects ...

Have a challenging mental task ahead of you? Try using Spring from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as background music. The Mozart Effect—the notion that listening to certain pieces of classical music can ...

Born in Venice, he trained as both a violinist and priest. When he was 25, Vivaldi was appointed the 'master of violin' at an orphanage called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà. He served in various roles ...

If music was a numbers game, this composer would be the undisputed greatest. He wrote a lot of music. In fact, people who aren’t fans of his describe his music as being "cookie-cutter" or "samey." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...