Francesco Venturini - Concerti da Camera Op.1

Francesco Venturini probably owed his Italian family name to the Italianate fashion of the period, but his native region is thought to be Flanders, given that the baptismal register for his children describe him as Bruxellensis. If you love Vivaldi's lively textures or Telemann's wonderful use of different instrument's voices the this record is a must have.



...In spite of the title ''concerti'' we are dealing here with an extensive collection of ''sonatas'' (a rather odd designation when the term ''suite'' would be more appropriate)... The rediscover of these Concerti da Camera Op.1 (1714) is most certainly a significant event for our knowledge of the early eighteenth-century orchestral repertory.... David Plantier, February 2006