Le Consort - Specchio Veneziano: Giovanni Battista Reali, Antonio Vivaldi (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 68:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 771 | Recorded: 2021
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 68:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 771 | Recorded: 2021
Specchio veneziano or the Venetian mirror – this programme compares and contrasts two composers from the city of the Doges: on the one hand the celebrated Vivaldi, on the other a virtual unknown, Giovanni Battista Reali, who was born there in 1681, three years after Vivaldi, and died in 1751, ten years after his illustrious colleague. A violinist himself, he composed trio sonatas, including a very spectacular Folia, which Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Sophie de Bardonnèche, Hanna Salzenstein and Justin Taylor juxtapose with Vivaldi’s Folia, alongside other highly virtuosic pieces, many of them complete rediscoveries, since half of this program has never been recorded before.