He's one of the defining figures of Baroque music - and of classical music in general. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi - Venetian composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, one-time Catholic priest - is a hugely ...

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 ...

Today, Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi’s series of violin concertos, “The Four Seasons,” is instantly recognizable. However, after its celebrated debut during Europe’s Baroque period in the 1700s, it ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

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 ...

Two sisters perform Vivaldi's "Summer" in one of the craziest public classical music performances! Antonio Vivaldi's "Summer" ...

Tom Service: Vivaldi's 332nd birthday is marked today by a Google doodle. Here are three reasons why he's immortal Tom Service: Purcell and Vivaldi are all very well, but it's a modern, avant-garde ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

Michael Abels writes scores for Jordan Peele. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar.” Now, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center shows off his classical side. By Anastasia Tsioulcas “In ...

We're lucky to be able to hear Frank Martin’s Mass for two four-part choirs at all; this most fastidious and self-critical of composers beavered away for decades before he felt he'd found his mature ...