THE COLD SONG OF VIVALDI’S “WINTER“ - XAVER VARNUS PLAYS ON ST. LADISLAUS’ CHURCH ORGAN IN BUDAPEST

•●The Official Video Site of Concert Organist Xaver Varnus●• The Varnus Organ Hall needs your help. We are asking the community’s support to restoring and operating Varnus Hall, Canada’s only private organ concert venue owned by Xaver Varnus, to provide a worthy home for organists, famous artists and young talent alike, from around the world to perform, and broadcast their concerts online. We are grateful to you if you can help our work with any donations. “Several famous music historians claim that Vivaldi used Purcell’s Cold Song as an example in the first movement of his Winter-concerto. Surprisingly, most violinists and orchestras play this dramatic and mysterious march as a meaningless fast movement. But Vivaldi gave a clear instruction at the beginning of the manuscript: Allegro non molto - not fast. At a slower tempo, we get a brand new piece that brings out the beauty of the lost harmo