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 ...

It must have been an amazing day for the music registrar at the library in Turin. In 1926, a party from the local Salesian community – a mission of priests founded by St John Bosco in nearby ...

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

Even if you are a hardcore classical music junkie, you've probably never been to a solo mandolin recital. Let's face it, mandolins are the black sheep of musical instruments, either confined to ...

Orchestra Hall will swell with baroque precision April 25-27 when the Detroit Symphony Orchestra celebrates "Vivaldi's Gloria," with four works by one of the classical canon's biggest crowd-pleasers.

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The mandolin has been around for four-plus centuries now, but the instrument never fully captured the imagination of the classical set. Over the years, ...