A comment in the booklet for this Italian release could serve as a credo for the Tactus label, which has unearthed a great deal of worthwhile Italian music, mostly of the eighteenth century: annotator Francesco Passadore urges the student of music history to "abandon the globalized academia of the great encyclopedias and turn his attention to sources which are less pretentious but nonetheless consistently reliable," namely historians focusing on specific localities. The composer explored here, Giovanni Meneghetti, worked in ...
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A comment in the booklet for this Italian release could serve as a credo for the Tactus label, which has unearthed a great deal of worthwhile Italian music, mostly of the eighteenth century: annotator Francesco Passadore urges the student of music history to "abandon the globalized academia of the great encyclopedias and turn his attention to sources which are less pretentious but nonetheless consistently reliable," namely historians focusing on specific localities. The composer explored here, Giovanni Meneghetti, worked in the never sexy but always significant city of Vicenza in northern Italy, between Venice and Milan, and the six concertos heard here, written perhaps around 1760 (the booklet offers no guidance here), reflect various trends that circulated in the area, which was something of a political and musical crossroads. They hover between the late Vivaldi style, which contributed more to Classicism than is generally recognized, and the galant styles whose headquarters at the time would have...
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Add this copy of Meneghetti: Violin Concerti and Sonatas to cart. $26.56, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Tactus.
