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Dall'Abaco, Porpora, Marcello, Tartini & Telemann: Concertos

10/5/2018, 19 Tracks, 1:08:42

Featuring

  • Nadja Zwiener
  • Tuomo Suni
  • Harry Bicket
  • Joseph Crouch
  • Katharina Spreckelsen
  • Alfonso Leal del Ojo
  • The English Concert
  • Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
  • Nicola Antonio Porpora
  • Alessandro Marcello
  • Giuseppe Tartini
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

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Composer Biography

Giuseppe Tartini, a composer on this album, scandalously married the niece of a local bishop, forcing him to flee to Assisi for five years.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dall'Abaco's music, as exemplified in his Op. 5 Concerto Grosso in D, showcases a fusion of Italian, French, and Dutch musical styles.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The English Concert is an orchestra whose members are recruited from Europe's foremost instrumentalists, playing on 18th-century instruments.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Nicola Porpora, a composer on this album, taught the 'superstar' castrato Farinelli and is credited by Joseph Haydn as teaching him the 'true fundamentals of composition'.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

Nicola Porpora, a composer on this album, spent seven years in London directing the 'Opera of the Nobility', established in opposition to Handel.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

Alessandro Marcello's Oboe Concerto, featured on this album, was mistakenly attributed to Vivaldi by J.S. Bach, who arranged it for solo harpsichord.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, a composer featured on this album, was forced to flee Munich with the Bavarian court after Maximilien Emanuel's defeat at the Battle of Blenheim.

Source: Booklet

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