All Vivaldi articles
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Review
Concert review: Aisslinn Nosky (Violin) Handel & Haydn Society
Leah Hollingsworth assesses the playing at Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, NYC, on 20 December 2019
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Christophe Coin: Vivaldi
Cello concertos played with real style and virtuosity as well as logical purpose
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L’Archicembalo: Vivaldi
There’s inventive and compelling playing in this bumper issue of Vivaldi
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Christoph Croisé, Sherniyaz Mussakhan: Haydn
Deliciously sprightly playing from soloist and pan-continental orchestra
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Video
'Winter' from Vivaldi's Four Seasons - III: Allegro - Henning Kraggerud, Arctic Philharmonic
This live recording of Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra is interspersed with footage of Kraggerud at Fjellheisen, near Tromsø in the Norwegian Arctic Circle, one of the orchestra’s bases. The complete Four Seasons and four of Kraggerud’s own compositions were released on Simax Classics in ...
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Europa Galante: Concerti per Violini Vi 'La Boemia'
Biondi and Europa Galante speak Vivaldi’s multiple languages with utter naturalness, energy and charm
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Masterclass: Daniel Hope on 'Winter' from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
The British violinist offers ideas on how to conjure a frosty chill through your violin playing. From the January 2015 issue
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Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Cellos – René Schiffer, Mimé Brinkmann – Apollo's Fire
This video features Apollo’s Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, conducted from the harpsichord by Jeannette Sorrell, with cello soloists René Schiffer and Mimé Y. Brinkmann, performing Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto in G Minor for Two Cellos, RV 531. The performance took place as part of the Tanglewood Festival on ...
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Henning Kraggerud: Between the Seasons
The Strad Issue: December 2017 Description: A cool Nordic wind blows through these Seasons Musicians: Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra/Henning Kraggerud (violin) Works: VIVALDI The Four Seasons; KRAGGERUD Preghiera, Postlude in B flat minor (Equinox), The last leaf – Magnus in Memoriam, Victimae Paschali Catalogue Number: SIMAX ...
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Henning Kraggerud plays Vivaldi's winter in the Arctic circle
In this video, Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra play the first movement of Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons. Kraggerud’s recording of the full cycle , along with his own companion pieces, was released earlier this year. The exterior scenes featuring Kraggerud were filmed near ...
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Lena Yokohama plays Vivaldi on newly restored 1749 Santo Serafin violin
In this video at the Violin Museum, Cremona (Museo del Violino), Japanese violinist Lena Yokohama plays a 1749 Santo Serafin violin. The museum has been coordinating the violin’s restoration on behalf of the Russian state collection, with Cremona-based luthiers Bruce Carlson and Bernard Neumann carrying out the work over ...
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Article
Vivaldi: Violin Concertos opp.11 and 12
The Str ad Issue: March 2017 Description: Guglielmo is muscular and eloquent in Vivaldi's final collections Musicians: Pier Luigi Fabretti (oboe), L'Arte dell'Arco/Federico Guglielmo (violin) Composer: Vivaldi Catalogue number: BRILLIANT CLASSICS 95048 (2 CDs) Federico Guiglielmo gives persuasive performances of the ...
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8 Jahreszeiten - Piazzolla: Cuatro estaciones porteñas; Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: Seasonal portraits from Venice and Buenos Aires sit side by side Musicians: Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin/ Liv Migdal (violin) Composer: Piazzolla, Vivaldi Catalogue number: SOLO MUSICA SM 235 ...
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The 12 seasons. Piazzolla: Cuatro estaciones porteñas. Shor: Four Seasons of Manhattan. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
The Strad Issue: July 2016 Description: Carpenter adds Manhattan skies to the familiar Vivaldi–Piazzolla pairing Musicians: David Aaron Carpenter (viola) Salomé Chamber Orchestra Composer: Piazzolla; Shor; Vivaldi Catalogue number: WARNER CLASSICS 2564 64869-5 ...
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12-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee gives 2016 Menuhin Competition winning performance
12-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee gives her winning performance in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Finals at London's Royal Academy of Music. The young violinist leads the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra as soloist in Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and also performs the world premiere of the new commission ...
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Huberman Festival 1982. Bach: Double Concerto in D minor BWV1043. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K364. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Concerto grosso in B minor op.3 no.10
The Strad Issue: April 2016 Description: Star string players gather to celebrate Huberman’s 100th Musicians: Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Shlomo Mintz, Ida Haendel, Ivry Gitlis (violins) Pinchas Zukerman (violin/viola) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin Mehta Composer: Bach; Mozart; Vivaldi In December 1982, to mark the centenary of the Israel ...
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons. Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’. Leclair: Violin Sonata in D major ‘Tambourin’
The Strad Issue: January 2016 Description: A calmer, cooler version of Vivaldi’s seasonal concertos Musicians: James Ehnes (violin/director) Andrew Armstrong (piano) Sydney Symphony Orchestra Composer: Vivaldi, Tartini, Leclair This might be the ideal antidote to Nigel Kennedy’s new, rebooted Four Seasons (see above), with its general disregard, ...
