‘L’estro armonico’ Concertos. L’estro armonico, meaning ‘The Harmonic Inspiration’ is Vivaldi’s 1711 set of 12 concertos for strings.Each concerto is written in eight parts, for four violins, two ...

One suspects that his choices when it came to mandolin players were much more limited. He wrote only two works with mandolin in them and only one for the solo instrument. Having said that, the one he ...

Remember the mandolin music in the Meryl Streep-Dustin Hoffmann starrer, Kramer vs Kramer, which turned out to be Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto in C Major?