The most popular guitar concerto from the Baroque era must certainly be the Guitar Concerto in D by Antonio Vivaldi. That is something of a misnomer, however, because Vivaldi actually wrote it for the ...

Although we associate Vivaldi mainly with Venice because he spent pretty much the first forty years of his life there, he did, inevitably, get itchy feet as he became older. As well as wanting to ...

Composer of The Four Seasons, Vivaldi was little more than a footnote for 200 years after his death, until a 20th-century innovation restored his worldwide fame. Minister of musicAn anonymous portrait ...