The title Behind Closed Doors attached to this album by violinist-leader Adrian Chandler and his group La Serenissima does not refer to any incident in the life of Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello or any other aspect of Baroque music in Venice, La Serenissima's specialty. Instead, the group includes in the booklet one of the most detailed descriptions available of the problems of music-making during the coronavirus pandemic of the early 2020s, and the title refers to that. It's hard to hear, though, much evidence of the ...
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The title Behind Closed Doors attached to this album by violinist-leader Adrian Chandler and his group La Serenissima does not refer to any incident in the life of Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello or any other aspect of Baroque music in Venice, La Serenissima's specialty. Instead, the group includes in the booklet one of the most detailed descriptions available of the problems of music-making during the coronavirus pandemic of the early 2020s, and the title refers to that. It's hard to hear, though, much evidence of the musicians' long layoff; everyone has heard players who were rusty upon resuming performances, but these are not among them. La Serenissima has previously played the music of the little-known Brescianello (he succeeded Johann Christoph Pez as music director of the Württemburg court in Stuttgart, but one may dispense with further historical details), and here, they do well to devote a whole album to him. Brescianello was ten years younger than Vivaldi and doubtless can be described as a...
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