Xuefei Yang performing the Concierto de Aranjuez in Barcelona, 2008 Every Saturday and Wednesday evening at 7, Classical 101 presents Fretworks for music of the classical guitar. On the program this ...

Vivaldi was known to have benefited from several great violinists where he worked, at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. One in particular, by the name of Anna Maria, was the dedicatee of more than ...

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 ...

I happened to listen to a programme on a German radio station focusing on great mandolin concertos and, to my surprise, in the company of Mozart, Vivaldi, Boccherini and Vittorio Monti, there surfaced ...