Discover our selection of the best Vivaldi works featuring 10 masterpieces including The Four Seasons. He taught the violin there, organised services with music, gave concerts, and composed most of his major works in this position over three decades. In the same year as his ordination he was appointed violin master at the Ospedale della Pietà, a Venetian convent for orphaned or illegitimate girls. He trained for the priesthood and was ordained in 1703. Vivaldi’s concertos became a model for his contemporaries, and the form was soon one of the most important in eighteenth century Europe. He introduced a range of new styles and techniques to string playing and consolidated one of its most important genres, the concerto. But his most important achievement was in his music for strings.

He ignited transformations in music for the church, the opera house and the concert hall. Open your mind and join the ACO for this stunning adventure where worlds intertwine.Antonio Vivaldi’s (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) influence on the development of Baroque music was immense. And so can you, as the ACO summons that heady time, in a stunning recasting of The Four Seasons that sits Vivaldi’s timeless music alongside the stirring sounds of oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros and riq master James Tawadros. It was one of the great cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial centres of its time.Įxotic goods, knowledge and culture from the Middle East, North Africa and beyond flowed unstoppably into Europe, propelled by the vast reach of the Ottoman empire.

Boundaries were porous, particularly in Venice where Vivaldi was born and lived. Vivaldi’s world was a thrilling and spicy place. ★★★★ “Tognetti in top form… Intoxicating.” – The Sydney Morning Herald ★★★★1/2 “An absolute tonic of a show and warmly recommended to music lovers of all stripes.” – Limelight ★★★★1/2 “ An extraordinarily virtuosic display resulting in the most scorching evocation of a summer storm one is ever likely to hear.” – The Age ★★★★★ “One of the most rhapsodic, lyrical, explosive and imaginative Four Seasons you’re ever likely to hear.” – The West Australian Touring to Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, and Wollongong.

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