Summary
Thomas Hall talks Britten and Vivaldi with the Northern Sinfonia's Bradley Creswick.
You could be forgiven for thinking that The Four Seasons are the Venetian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi's only claim to fame, given their ubiquity as supermarket music, on telephone queuing systems and, of course, CD and the concert platform.See the full content of this document
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The Other Vivaldi
But great as they are, the first four of Vivaldi's opus 8 concertos (published in 1725) were not his first big hit. An earlier set of 12 concertos, his L'estro armonico, op...
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