Vivaldi’s Spring makes you smarter
Listening to Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons could have beneficial effects on the brain. Psychologist Leigh Riby, in a study for Northumbria University, says ‘well-recognised, vibrant, emotive and uplifting…
Vivaldi-Orlando furioso (1714) on the Naïve label for free download
Orlando furioso RV 819 (Teatro San Angelo, Venice 1714) is an opera surviving in manuscript in Vivaldi’s personal library, only partly related to his better known Orlando furioso (RV 728) of 1727. For many…
La Nuova Musica on Harmonia Mundi, the both Dixit Dominus of Handel & Vivaldi
Founded five years ago, La Nuova Musica is a vocal and instrumental ensemble dedicated to reinvigorating the music of the Renaissance and Baroque, it has shot to that “one of the most…