Alessandro Scarlatti: Concerti Grossi; Cello Sonatas (2001)

The Accademia Bizantina under conductor and keyboardist Ottavio Dantone is one of a number of young Italian historical-instrument groups that have been revolutionizing the world of Baroque instrumental music performance. The basic idea of the style of this group and its compatriots is that the dominant genre and stylistic exemplar of Italian music in the early 18th century was opera, and that instrumental music ought to reflect the sense of high drama that an operatic audience would have expected. This release offers an ... Read More

The Accademia Bizantina under conductor and keyboardist Ottavio Dantone is one of a number of young Italian historical-instrument groups that have been revolutionizing the world of Baroque instrumental music performance. The basic idea of the style of this group and its compatriots is that the dominant genre and stylistic exemplar of Italian music in the early 18th century was opera, and that instrumental music ought to reflect the sense of high drama that an operatic audience would have expected. This release offers an excellent specimen of its style, but the wrinkle this time around is that the repertory involved is of an earlier type than the High Baroque Vivaldi type of concerto in which this sort of playing is usually heard. The concerti grossi of Alessandro Scarlatti, though not published until 1740, date from well before then (Scarlatti died in 1725), probably between 1710 and 1720. Both these and the three sonatas for cello and continuo are of the Corelli sonata da chiesa or church sonata type,... Read Less

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