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Convivium - Early Italian Violin Sonatas: Stradella, Marini, Castello, Cima, Uccellini (1998)

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Convivium - Early Italian Violin Sonatas: Stradella, Marini, Castello, Cima, Uccellini (1998)

Convivium - Early Italian Violin Sonatas: Stradella, Marini, Castello, Cima, Uccellini (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 72:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66985 | Recorded: 1997

Everybody will know by now that Elizabeth Wallfisch has a special interest, affection and regard for the 17th- and 18th-century Italian violin schools. She has already recorded much music by the likes of Tartini, Corelli, Locatelli and others with her group, The Locatelli Trio, and also with The Raglan Baroque Players under Nicholas Kraemer. Here is a varied and fascinating collection of pieces by some of the lesser-known composers from a generation or two earlier than those composers.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Alessandro Stradella: San Giovanni Battista (1989)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Alessandro Stradella: San Giovanni Battista (1989)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Alessandro Stradella: San Giovanni Battista (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 334 Mb | Total time: 74:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # RD 77034 | Recorded: 1989

Alessandro Stradella was a remarkable composer and his oratorio San Giovanni Battista is a remarkable work. Both have never fallen into oblivion. As far as the composer is concerned, that is mainly due to his adventurous life, which ended with his being murdered as a result of one of his many love affairs. The oratorio was still known in the 19th century, and it was Stradella's first work performed in the 20th century: in 1949 Maria Callas took the role of Eriodiade la figlia, better known as Salome.

Il Concerto d'Arianna - Roma 1670: Stradella, Lonati, Corelli, Mannelli (2009)

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Il Concerto d'Arianna - Roma 1670: Stradella, Lonati, Corelli, Mannelli (2009)

Il Concerto d'Arianna - Roma 1670: Stradella, Lonati, Corelli, Mannelli (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 388 Mb | Total time: 60:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 632 | Recorded: 2006

Queen Christina of Sweden was a lavish patron of music in her own kingdom - initially she mainly extended her patronage to French musicians but from 1652 it was largely Italian musicians whom she brought to her court in Stockholm. Having secretly converted to Catholicism, Christina abdicated in June of 1654 and almost immediately left Sweden - most of her valuable library had been smuggled out earlier - and made her way to Rome, her journey there seeming at times to be effectively a series of triumphal processions; there’s a fine account of all these events in Veronica Buckley’s Christina. Once established in Rome - where her arrival was greeted by special musical performances in the Palazzo Barberini, the Palazzo Pamphili and elsewhere - she soon became one of the city’s most active patrons of literature and music.