Bettina Hoffmann, who plays cello on two sonatas, is also a musicologist and her two CDs with the Modo Antiquo orchestra were nominated for Grammy Awards.
Performer Biography
Paola Talamini, the organist, has been the principal organist at the Basilica della Salute in Venice since 1999 and holds multiple specialist degrees.
Composer Biography
Federico Maria Sardelli is a versatile artist, active as a composer, conductor, flautist, writer, essayist, and painter, and he heads the Antonio Vivaldi Catalogue.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The Baroque idiom, unlike later styles, did not encourage artists to be original at all costs, but rather to work within a shared corpus of gestures and forms.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Federico Maria Sardelli, the composer, aims for a strictly historicist approach, asking how music was composed in Venice in the early 1720s.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Sardelli's compositions are a form of "total mimesis" of the Baroque style, allowing him to deeply understand its gestures, proportions, and linguistic paradigms.
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