Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The music world is inestimably the better for Rachel Podger, baroque violin virtuoso and teacher. Everything she ...

Both the title ("Vivaldi con moto") and cover art of this new release from Italian virtuoso Giuliano Carmignola - it shows him perched on a motorcycle, clearly ready to zip off into the distance - ...

(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(La) cetra', Movements: No. 1 in C, RV181a Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Il Pomo d'Oro Riccardo Minasi, Violin (12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(La) cetra', ...

Concerto for Violin and Strings Il Pomo d'Oro Dmitry Sinkovsky, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Concerto for Violin and Strings Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Dmitry Sinkovsky, Violin Il Pomo d'Oro ...

The violinist Giuliano Carmignola is pictured on his motorbike on the cover of this collection of six concertos played "con moto", and the sound is indeed hard-driven and exciting, full of those ...

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 ...

There is a glut of new Vivaldi recordings at the moment. This disc, with Viktoria Mullova playing five of his violin concertos with the period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, is an impressive issue, ...

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases. c2.10pm Early music expert Kirsten Gibson joins Andrew to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Posterity has acquired a lopsided view of Antonio Vivaldi. His picturesque set of violin concertos known as Le ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Double Violin Concerto remains one of his best loved and most famous works, but concertos for more than one instrument weren't a novelty by any means. Vivaldi had written many ...

Opera director Damiano Michieletto discusses bringing Antonio Vivaldi’s early Venetian years to the screen in Primavera, a film that blends Baroque music, modern soundscapes and a quietly radical ...

The exceptional musicians of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta will masterpieces by Bach and Vivaldi, in the beautiful setting of St Mary Le Strand, London. A hugely appealing programme designed to help you ...