The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras ...
Jean-Guihen Queyras here tackles eight of the 27 Vivaldi concertos written for the cello, along with two brief Sinfonias by his contemporary Antonio Caldara, weak consommés at the side of the Venetian ...
This is Vivaldi in his shred-fest mode, played by the terrific French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. It's a movement of one of the two dozen or so cello concertos he wrote for the young residents of the ...
There are few more accessible things in the classical canon than Baroque music for strings. Three gorgeous recordings on period instruments underscore why. G.B. Platti: "Concerto Grossi After Corelli, ...
The Baroque Orchestra of Maine (BOOM) will present two concerts, one on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 4 p.m., at the Brooklin Inn and ...
The cellist Sol Gabetta was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1981. From 1992-94 a scholarship enabled her to study at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, after which she went to ...
Vivaldi's last great set of printed concertos was La cetra (''The lyre''), published by Le Cene in Amsterdam in 1727. All but one of the 12 concertos are for solo violin; the exception is the ninth in ...
Dermot Mulroney knows how to get to Carnegie Hall. The 58-year-old actor, who has played cello for many years, told Page Six that he has an ambitious dream for his non-acting life: Playing Vivaldi’s ...