In collaboration with the Opéra de Nice and with the Ensemble Baroque de Nice, Dynamic releases a Vivaldian rarity, Rosmira Fedele, first staged at Venice’s Teatro Sant’Angelo on 27th January 1738. Written on a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia, Rosmira Fedele is the last opera by Vivaldi that has come down to us. Written three years before the composer’s death, this work heralds the end of one of the most fertile theatrical careers in the history of music.

The restoration of this pastoral drama, created in 1721 in Milan, was supervised by French musicologist and Vivaldi specialist Frederic Delamea. These landmark performances from the Nice Baroque Ensemble are lead by Gilbert Bezzina and feature a cast of international soloists including Roberta Invernizzi, Gloria Banditelli, Johan Elwes and Philippe Cantor.

The performances are both elegant and stylish by soloist and ensemble. A lovely transparency of sound has been attained, aided considerably by this unusually beautiful organ. (…) The entire release bears the stamp, ‘exquisite’.

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, one of the four best-known sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, has gone down in history as the “Bückeburg Bach.” During his years at the court of Count Wilhelm zu Schaumburg-Lippe in Bückeburg he produced a remarkable body of sacred and secular works, including piano concertos, symphonies, cantatas, oratorios, and Passion settings.