You’ve probably heard Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto (“La Primavera” in its original Italian) before. More than likely, you didn’t hear it on the radio or on Spotify or performed live, but you may have ...

A group of 14 young volunteers listened to the concertos while performing a challenging mental task. At the same time, scientists measured the electrical activity of their brains. Results showed that ...

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269 (Spring); Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8/2, RV 315 (Summer); Concerto in F Major, Op. 8/3, RV 293 (Autumn); Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8/4, ...

Vivaldi's Four Seasons has been dropped as the telephone hold music at the Department of Work and Pensions after callers said it made them anxious. The 30-second loop of Spring, the concerto’s first ...

The Mozart Effect—the notion that listening to certain pieces of classical music can boost one’s brainpower—was initially embraced, widely popularized, and then largely debunked. But like an operatic ...

Venice, Italy (WHTM) He was known as The Red Priest. He was one of the best known composers and performers of the Baroque era. He wrote over 500 concertos, as well as sacred choral works, operas, ...

Spring arrived at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concerts this weekend — along with summer, autumn and winter — thanks to Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” concertos. The programmatic pieces, which ...

I first experienced Vivaldi as a toddler at Yehudi Menuhin's festival in Gstaad, Switzerland, in 1975. One day I heard what I thought was birdsong coming from the stage. It was the opening solo of "La ...

Antonio Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos. Today, most people know four of them. But those four — commonly known as “The Four Seasons” — have become part of our cultural fabric. They may not even ...