Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri:
Introducione for strings and continuo in G, Op. 1/1

Giuseppe Sammartini:
Concerto for recorder, strings & continuo in F

Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco:
Concerto XII for strings & continuo in D, Op. 6

Antonio Vivaldi:
Concerto for violin, strings & continuo in A, RV 353
Concerto for sopranino recorder, strings & continuo in C, RV 443
Concerto for violin, strings & continuo in e, RV 281

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello:
Overture-Suite for strings & continuo in D

Looking at the variety of Italian baroque instrumental music on offer to today’s listener, one could be forgiven for thinking that Vivaldi had faced little competition during his lifetime. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Whilst the volume of music that flowed from Vivaldi’s pen was unusually plentiful, many other composers were needed to fulfil the needs of the regional courts and churches throughout Italy.

Expert early-music ensemble La Serenissima perform works by Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, Giuseppe Sammartini, Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco and Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello alongside works by Vivaldi on this new album of Italian Baroque masterpieces.

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Recorded in Cedars Hall, Wells Cathedral School, Somerset UK from 2nd to 4th June 2021 & 14th & 16th February 2022. Instruments: Sopranino recorder by Küng Blockflöten, GmbH, Superio model; Violin: Rowland Ross, Guildford, 1981, after Amati.