ITALIAN BAROQUE The Instrumental Edition

A celebration of instrumental Baroque splendour! This set present an anthology of Italian Baroque composers, featuring their instrumental output. Obviously the famous composers have their fair share: Vivaldi, Albinoni, Locatelli, Corelli, but also lesser-known composers are featured: Barsanti, Bassani, Veracini, Nardini, Stradella, Vitali, Mancini, Platti, Legrenze and many more, over 30 composers! Performances by leading ensembles specialized in the Historically Informed Performance Practice: L’Arte dell’Arco/Federico Guglielmo, Ensemble Cordia/Stefano Veggetti, Violini Capricciosi/Igor Ruhadze, Musica Amphion/Pieter-Jan Belder and many more. A treasure trove of solo concertos, concerti grossi, sinfonias, overtures, trio sonatas and solo sonatas from the Golden Era of the Italian Baroque, era of joy, passion and brilliance

This new and expansive collection includes over 30 composers, many of whom are rarely heard in the concert repertoire, including new recordings of Giuseppe Tartini’s Sonatas for violin and Nicola Porpora’s Sonatas for cello. This release also contains some of the most popular Baroque music today – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Corelli’s Concerti Grossi are present and correct – along with many under-appreciated works of well known composers; Albinoni’s skill as a composer is on show in a rare rendition of his Trattenimenti Armonici, and Scarlatti’s dramatic Sinfonie di concerto grosso also make an appearance.