Veracini/ Ensemble Opera Qvinta - Sonate Da Camera a Violino SoloAntonio Veracini (1659 1733) was born in Florence during the Renaissance, and developed a career as a composer under the Medici patronage. He worked in close contact with the most eminent figures of the court and managed the best music school of the city. This release features the ten violin sonatas Opus 2 composed in 1694, which were officially conceived "to provide practice works for beginners" but actually require of performers excellent technical

The dawn of bel canto may be discerned in the slow movement of the album's concluding D minor Viola Concerto

through the most unlikely and serendipitous sequence of events

Adam Rifkin

Wilhelm Busch and others

the Amati Ensemble Berlin

as well as readings of the Italian poems (many of which are by Petrarch) by Alessandro Quarta

whose members base their work on well-founded occupation with historical performance practice but also always assign foremost importance to vibrant musical communication

designed for the orphanage choir

including the Gryphon Trio

April Stevens and Mamie van Doren

has penned a new oratorio infused with religious themes and featuring an ensemble of orchestra

dedicated to the period of the so-called normalization in the 1970s and 1980s and based on the motives of a song by The Plastic People of the Universe