Giovanni Battista Fontana, a contemporary of Monteverdi, was a renowned violin virtuoso from Brescia who died during the plague epidemic of 1630 in Padua.
Composition History
Antonio Vivaldi's serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo' was commissioned by the French ambassador to Venice in 1725 to celebrate the wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in July 2023 at the church of St-Juire-Champgillon in France.
Performer Biography
Carlo Vistoli, one of the counter-tenors on this album, has been praised as a "new countertenor superstar" by Gramophone magazine.
Composition History
Agostino Steffani, a composer on this album, wrote nearly eighty 'duetti da camera', a genre in which he was considered "incomparable" by the theoretician Johann Mattheson.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Claudio Monteverdi, a composer featured on this album, was an "apostle of a 'second praxis'" that led to the emergence of 'new music' and the flowering of 'modern music'.
Composer Biography
Giovanni Bononcini, a virtuoso cellist and composer, became a rival to Handel in London in 1720 while under the patronage of the Duchess of Marlborough.
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