La Fidelíssima - Antonio Caldara: Sonate a tre (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 58:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | ARN 68601 | Recorded: 2002
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 58:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | ARN 68601 | Recorded: 2002
Venice was one of the most fertile centres of Italian Baroque music. The serenity of its inhabitants and their immoderate taste for celebration, carnivals, entertainment and pleasure were the envy of the whole of Europe, as were the beauty of the city and its fine situation, its prestige and its magnificence. In the City of the Doges music was a necessity. ‘There are concerts somewhere almost every evening,’ wrote the French scholar and politician Charles de Brosses in 1740.