Fabio Biondi is an Italian violinist and conductor. He is a specialist in Baroque and early music.
Biondi with Vivica Genaux at the Misteria Paschalia, Poland, in 2010.
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
The Four Seasons is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione.
Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. 8, 1725)
Title page of Vivaldi's Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Invenzione, which included The Four Seasons
Bernardino Molinari, who made the first electrical recording of The Four Seasons in 1942.