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The influence of Antonio Vivaldi on J. S. Bach's Organ Concerto Transcriptions

Sandro Da Silva discusses the influence of Antonio Vivaldi on Johann Sebastian Bach, in particular on Bach's organ transcriptions.

James Quandt on Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962) and the musca depicta

AN ODDITY IN THE OPENING CREDITS for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma (1962) has gone largely unremarked, probably because it is so cursory. A minute or so into the credit sequence, which is accompanied by the stately largo from Vivaldi’s Concerto for Viola d’Amore and Lute in D Minor, a fly suddenly enters at the lower right-hand side of the frame, meanders a bit before pausing on the name of an actor (Giulio de Stephanis) as if to inspect it, and then skitters off as quickly as it had emerged, its time on-screen totaling three seconds. Was the intrusion of the insect an accident most likely or, given Pasolini’s radical ways, an intentional aberration? I conferred with the Pasolini archives in Bologna, Italy, which found no reference regarding this strange anomaly, so one must assume that the fly’s brief invasion of the image either went unnoticed by the director or that, once detected, the insect was permitted its guest appearance, for reasons other than the merely pragmati

In Salzburg: Mozart rightly at centre of three of the supreme masters of the string quartet – Seen and Heard International

Johann Ernst Altenburg Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Georg Philipp Telemann - The Sound of Trumpets (15 tracks) +Album Reviews

William Dart review: Bach Musica at the Auckland Town Hall

The opening chorus of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio represents High Baroque splendour at its most electrifying. On Sunday night, it was a spectacular launch for.