Settecento: Baroque Instrumental Music fromt the Italian States

Featuring

Tabea Debus
Adrian Chandler
Camilla Scarlett
Carina Drury
La Serenissima
Alessandro Scarlatti

Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
Antonio Vandini
Francesco Mancini
Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello
Giuseppe Tartini
Antonio Vivaldi

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Compositional Technique

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello's trio sonata features unusual repeats in its second movement, where the two violin parts are swapped around.

Composer Biography

Antonio Vandini, a colleague of Tartini at the Basilica del Santo, was one of the finest cellists of the eighteenth century, known for his hunched posture and underhand bowing technique.

Composer Biography

Giuseppe Tartini, a legendary violinist-composer, spent much of his career in Padua as leader and solo violinist of the orchestra of the Basilica del Santo.

Historical Context

The early 1600s saw a dramatic increase in published instrumental music, which promoted greater technical proficiency among musicians.

Performer Biography

La Serenissima, directed by Adrian Chandler, is recognized as the UK's leading exponent of eighteenth-century Venetian music and related composers, editing its entire repertoire from manuscript or contemporary sources.

Historical Context

The violin became indispensable to composers due to its wide range, ability to cross large intervals, play double-stops, and perform endless passages.

Historical Context

Vivaldi's prodigious quantity of music for wind instruments was unusual for an Italian composer, largely due to his relationship with the Ospedale della Pietà, a Venetian foundling hospital.