This release by veteran Italian conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano ensemble is a successor to the album by these forces entitled 1600. As with that release, the program does not focus on a single year, but on the better part of a century; the works here begin with a large group from around 1700, written under the influence of Corelli, and proceed through Vivaldi up to a Sonata a quattro of Baldassare Galuppi, whose minuet-like last movement knocks at the door of Classicism. What links the works is an ...
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This release by veteran Italian conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano ensemble is a successor to the album by these forces entitled 1600. As with that release, the program does not focus on a single year, but on the better part of a century; the works here begin with a large group from around 1700, written under the influence of Corelli, and proceed through Vivaldi up to a Sonata a quattro of Baldassare Galuppi, whose minuet-like last movement knocks at the door of Classicism. What links the works is an emphasis on strong affect, and they are almost without exception a lot of fun and probably outside your current conception of Baroque instrumental ensemble music. Sample a few of the five movements of the (paradoxically) delightful Sinfonia funebre of Pietro Locatelli, both for an idea of the music on the program and for the playful attitude Alessandrini and company bring to it. Much of the music, even the Concerto in D major for strings, RV 124, by Vivaldi, is all but unknown, and...
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Add this copy of 1700 to cart. $9.37, good condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2018 by Naive.
