Italian Concerti Grossi
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- Composer
- Sammartini, Giuseppe
- Performers
- Capella Istropolitana, Krecek, Jaroslav
- Label
- Naxos
- Barcode
- 4891030508774
Italian Concerti GrossiGiovanni Battista Sammartini (1700 or 1701 - 1775)Sinfonia in A MajorTomaso Albinoni (1671 - 1751)Sonata a cinque in G Minor, Op. 2, No.6Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)Concerto in A Minor con due violini obligatiOp. 3, No.8, RV 522Pietro Locatelli (1695 - 1764)Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 1, No.12Francesco Manfredini (1684 - 1762)Sinfonia No.10 in C MinorArcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713)Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No.4Francesco Geminiani (1687 - 1762)Concerto Grosso in C Minor, Op. 2, No.2Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)Concerto Grosso No.3 in F MajorBy the early eighteenth century Italy had become still more firmlyestablished as the source of much European musical activity. Italian opera helda dominant position in the musical theatre, while Italian instrumental music andits performers were heard from Lisbon to London, St. Petersburg and Vienna. TheItalian instrumental style found its most influential expression in the work ofthe violinist Arcangelo Corelli. Born in Fusignano in 1653, he studied inBologna, before establishing himself in Rome in the 1670s, entering the serviceof Queen Christina of Sweden towards the end of the decade, and later benefitingfrom the patronage of Cardinal Pamphili, with regular performances at thelatter's Palazzo al Corso. His principal patron for the last twenty years of hislife was the young Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, nephew of Pope Alexander VIII. Corelli'sinfluence was very considerable in a number of ways. He was
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