Vivaldi

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The music of Antonio Vivaldi is best known to us through just one of his compositions - the Four Seasons - yet there are well over 500 other works that survive. Sonatas, symphonies, concertos. He a...

The music of Antonio Vivaldi is best known to us through just one of his compositions - the Four Seasons - yet there are well over 500 other works that survive. Sonatas, symphonies, concertos. He also wrote a considerable number of operas and oratorios, but it is as a composer of instrumental music that he is chiefly remembered. Combined with stunning period images, paintings and feature film inserts, the program explores the life and times ofVivaldi against a background of orchestral performance of the highlights of his most popular works.

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