We hear Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in A minor for Two Violins, Op. 3, No. 8. Music of the Baroque performs.

This unsettling and unusual disc offers a vision of Vivaldi that is worlds away from the comforting platitudes of FM radio. Even by the evolving standards of period-instrument performance, the Venice ...

In the 18th century, travelers came from all over Europe to hear Anna Maria and Chiara perform in Venice. Neither attained the wealth or the immortal fame of someone like Paganini, but composers ...

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 ...

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) ...

Julian Lloyd Webber joins his cellist wife for his 'farewell' album. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 22 September 2014. This latest recording from Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber will have added ...

Here’s some Vivaldi-Richter violin magic, played by the youngest finalist of French TV talent show ‘Prodiges’, to blow you away. The competition looks for the most promising young talents in three ...

I teach violin in Beverly Hills, and this summer I received an unusual request. Jonathan Hollander, a choreographer and founder of the nearly 40-year-old Battery Dance Company in New York, contacted ...

If you know and like the Four Seasons, chances are you won't be disappointed with the 56th volume of the Naïve label's ongoing Vivaldi series. The selection of six concertos for two violins (RV523, ...