Jonathan Yuen Siu-him, not Jonathan Yuen Yee-hang, performed the encore. Just how interchangeable are the skills of a viola player and a violinist? In a concert with the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, ...

Explore our guide to Vivaldi’s best-known work ‘The Four Seasons’ – a set of four radical violin concertos depicting the seasons of the year. The crux of the issue was musical ‘description’. If you’ve ...

September 2, 2019, 5:24 PM · Should I tell them the secret? It's something I've thought more than once this summer, teaching several of my students the complicated 16th-note passages in the first and ...

Vivaldi Violin Concertos, RV 187, 217, 235, 321, 366 & 387 Julien Chauvin (violin); Le Concert de la Loge Naïve OP 30585 62:11 mins Hard on the heels of the seventh volume of Naïve’s survey of Vivaldi ...

As modern-instrument performances of Vivaldi’s ubiquitous Four Seasons go, this newcomer from David Juritz and the London Mozart Players is among the most pleasing I’ve encountered. With two ...

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 ...

Listen to Venezuelan violinist Baltazar Monaca performing Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in A Minor – on what has been described as ‘the world’s smallest violin.’ Source: The Violin Channel ...

Two previously unknown violin compositions by Antonio Vivaldi have been discovered in a manuscript collection in the U.K. The sonatas have been authenticated by Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot, a ...